Thursdays with Leila exemplifies the slapdash style and narrative verve, piety and subversion, timeless myth and topicality that made Corín Tellado the queen of the Spanish romance. Of a later generation than Britains Barbara Cartland or Frances Delly, she, like them, nevertheless wrote in a society tensed between the inexorable development of modernity and a deep-rooted social conservatism.
| Author: Corín Tellado, Duncan Wheeler
| Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association