Feral Fruit

Fiction

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Events conspire against Esmeralda in her search for the truth about Pili’s murder: the arrival of an attractive legionnaire and the internecine rivalry which results; a prophecy made to Lisa by a Santeria priest in Cuba while investigating her father’s bigamy, a prophecy disregarded as superstition but eerily fulfilled by a character key to the mystery of Pili; a perplexing trial; risky sexual adventure with consequences; and not least, natural forces in the rocky, clifftop plot.

As Esme struggles to keep afloat her fruit, vegetable and chalet business off the Santiago Way in northern Spain, she finds herself spiralling into criminality.

Pili’s unquiet spirit leads Esme into ever more ethereal terrain until she is compelled to bore through the life-death interface, to conquer disbelief and meet Pili face to face.

Julia Seivad was born in Cumbria, graduated in English Literature and Philosophy, worked in exporting and teaching, spent time in India, and travelled to the Americas, Guatemala, Slovakia and Spain. She walked, cycled, played violin and sang along the Santiago Way, windsurfed and sailed in coastal waters, volunteered in a London prison, taught in Valladolid, Spain, grew fruit and vegetables in Cantabria, and has settled there.

Her work includes poetry, an autobiography, teaching manuals and a novel, Use of the Fruit.