![]() ![]() Johnson’s masterly character depictions mean that we climb walls with Blessings, participate in battles alongside him, feel sympathy when he loses his foot and has a golden replacement. We meet the young prince’s bitter and strong mother, a wicked stepmother, viziers and Spanish generals as the depths of internecine plotting and betrayal are revealed. The descriptions pull readers into hauntingly beautiful gardens, palace rooms, arid landscapes, and scary, narrow lanes.īlessings, Prince Momo’s friend and guard, is a vividly realised personality, dedicated to his master, moving around the Alhambra as a spy. The dual-time narrative is thrilling, with many tense scenes. We follow her story and the unravelling of the paper’s message alongside the story of Ferdinand and Isabella’s expulsion of the last Sultan and Granada’s fall. She is working as a waitress in the shadow of the palaces, hiding from a terrifying past. In the last decade of the 15 th century, a scrap of paper containing a mysterious message was hidden in a wall in the Alhambra Palaces in Granada, to be discovered five centuries later by Kate Fordham. ![]()
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