A review by liambluer
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom

3.0

There are two main plot lines here, an extremely dull one about public schoolboys, shady business dealings, and espionage, and a fairly more rousing one about a prison break. However, Sansom's superb evocation of the periods before, during and after the Spanish Civil War, and its effect on those who lived through it, goes some way towards compensating for the plot's shortcomings, and I would recommend it purely on that basis (if you like that sort of thing) (which I do).