The Last Summer Spain 1936 Author:Helen Griffiths, Victor G. Ambrus Eduardo has done poorly on his exams, so instead of going to a seaside resort with his mother, he has to stay with his father and study at the family's country estate. There he spends his free time with the caretaker, who tells him about Gaviota, an old mare in the pasture, that was once famous as a bullfighter's mount. — When his f... more »ather mysteriously fails to return from a trip and the caretaker is shot, Eduardo escapes with the mare to search for his mother is a country that is torn apart by civil war. The adventures that he and Gaviota share in their struggle to survive forge a close and moving relationship in this portrait of a boy caught up in events beyond his comprehension.« less