Julia Seivad was born in Cumbria in 1953, and has settled in Cantabria, northern Spain. She has lived in India, England, Wales, Guatemala and Slovakia, and travelled extensively in Europe and the Americas. She has worked as an export executive and teacher of English as a Foreign Language. She enjoys playing classical music with friends, sea swimming and gardening. Use of the Fruit is her first novel.
When Esmeralda Ruiz returns home from London in search of land to farm and a safe haven, she doesn’t realize the moral peril of living with Rex Trevail, a reclusive and erudite man. She also doesn’t know about the hidden animosity between Rex and the village mayor, Javier Crespo, whose source is...