Midwinter Turns to Spring
2nd Edition
by Maria Veloso
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Pub Date Mar 11 2022 | Archive Date May 27 2022
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Description
Moving Love Story with Spiritual Wisdom
Cassidy Hamilton, a San Francisco woman, moves into a Victorian apartment and discovers a hidden drawer tucked behind the baseboard of a built-in china cabinet. Inside the drawer is the journal of Savannah Curtis, a woman who lived in the same Victorian apartment twenty-six years earlier.
The journal reveals the story of Alfonso Madrigál, a Spanish flamenco guitarist, who meets Savannah, an artist and art appraiser, when he seeks to authenticate a painting that is thought to be the work of Pablo Picasso. However, the painting has a mysterious pentimento that s just beginning to resurface.
Neither of them is looking for the other, and yet when Alfonso Madrigál finds himself attending Savannah's art lecture one Indian summer in 1977.
Events from that day forward conspire to irretrievably change both their lives and the lives of those who knew them.
Midwinter Turns to Spring is a riveting and romantic story that incorporates a glimpse into the exotic, vivacious and sensual Flamenco culture; a dramatic sub-plot set in the South of Spain, marked by intrigue, murder and deception, and a mystery involving an 1897 painting.
It also speculates the outcomes of paths taken and not taken, as well as the punishments and rewards of those that choose to love.
Advance Praise
"“A Phenomenally Important Work … Pioneering a Next-generation Genre in Fiction…”
""Midwinter Turns to Spring is a phenomenally important work that represents the synergistic fusion of prose and music. Maria Veloso is pioneering a next-generation genre in fiction that incorporates profound insights, a message of transcendence and extraordinary songwriting."" -- Tony Trupiano, host of nationally syndicated ""Tony Trupiano Show""
""One of the Most Beautiful, Moving Novels I’ve Read ...""
""Midwinter Turns to Spring is one of the most beautiful, moving and emotionally satisfying novels I've read in a long time. The message that comes through shines with so much hope, grace, redemption -- and stands as such a powerful picture of true, faithful love, that I can only weep and hope that it will reach and heal many people. This novel humbles me and challenges me to deeper definitions of love."" -- Diane Eble, author of Abundant Gifts and MotherStyles"
Available Editions
ISBN | 9780989678148 |
PRICE | $6.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Beautifully romantic and poignant, Midwinter Turns to Spring is an unforgettable romance that will capture the heart and emotions as the pages turn. Hard to put down once begun, Maria Veloso captures the deep and abiding love between two people that was to last a lifetime, despite some very huge obstacles placed in their way.
Alphonso Madrigal attends a lecture on Picasso given by Savannah Curtis, a fine art consultant and specialist. He is disturbed by something about her that he can’t work out. He asks her after the lecture about a painting, and a hand painted tambourine that he has owned for many years, given to him by his beloved grandmother, said to have been painted by Picasso in his youth, using the name Ruiz.
So begins an enchanting story that sees a flamenco player and a fine art specialist fall into a deep, passionate and abiding love, that may have remained as a passionate moment in time except for Cassidy, a young Law graduate renting the apartment that had been Savannah Curtis’s many years ago.
She finds two journals which capture her innate sense of curiosity and sets out to discover more about the two people so in love. What happened to them and where are they now.
This decision leads to the unexpected and eventually to Cassidy finding a new pathway in her own life.
Veloso’s descriptive turn of phrase and language is something that is seldom seen in novels in modern times, but as the story segues between the past and present, the metre used is perfect to describe the power of love, music and an integral spirituality.
Midwinter Turns to Spring was first published in 2005 and is now about to enchant to a new audience once again.
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