Romantic Spain

Under a “Spanish lustre” of sunlight in Camberwell Green, John Augustus O’Shea puts himself on trial—for harbouring a vagrom spirit. His sentence, for now, is to sit still while Spain waits unwritten.

In late-19th-century London, O’Shea chafes against duty, the dull bustle of an election, and the quiet streets around him. A tram ride and a glimpse of a vessel from Seville set his thoughts racing toward Spain, while his publishers wait impatiently for a book he has yet to begin. The man who longs for a yacht, a horse, or “the tumult of real political strife” must turn restlessness into pages—and soon. Beyond London’s rails and river lies a country caught in political upheaval, and a journey that promises far more than a change of scenery. Can motion give O’Shea the inspiration he needs?

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