Rolling Fields

David Trueba

W&N £16.99

Dani Mosca, a 40-year-old Spanish rock legend, is sitting in the back seat of a hearse with his father’s body. As the car wends its way to his childhood village, north of Madrid, Dani looks back on the messiness of a colourful and eventful life. Effortlessly readable and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful, though you can’t help but suspect that something quintessentially Spanish has been lost in translation.