Wild Olives

A marvellously readable, vivid and down-to-earth portrait of the author's young life on the island of Mallorca in the shadow of his remarkable father, the poet Robert Graves.As a five year-old child, William Graves is taken in 1944 from England to the magical mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father, the poet Robert Graves, had returned with his new family to the place where he had lived before the war with Laura Riding. Young William grows up in the shadow of this great writer in the Englishness of the Graves household, while experiencing the ways of life of the Majorcans, which…