He prodded my nose. ‘Why do I always get the feeling that, somehow, it’s always my fault?’
‘Well… I’m not complaining. Hotch down and get comfy, Nando said about half eleven.’ More kicks. ‘Josemi - down boy!’
Then Jeremy’s phone sang out its new ring tone: an alegría, bulería or on-the-fast-side soleá, who knows. But we smiled at each other and put our hands on it together.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to my editor, Linda Lloyd, and all at Indepenpress for their help and belief.
I’d like to give a huge gracias to maestro Paco Peña and his family for allowing me to include him in the story, and to my flamenco teachers in Sussex (Ana Dueñas León) and Granada (Escuela Carmen de las Cuevas) for their inspiration.
I’m also very grateful to Phil Radford, Helen Peacock, Tara Gladden and Maria Alicia Ferrera-Peña for bravely poring over early drafts, and to my family for generally putting up with it all. Olé us!
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