SOURCE: "A Winter in Andalusia," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 2783, July 1, 1955, p. 366.

In the following commendable review, the critic characterizes A Rose for Winter as "poetic" and unlike other travel books.

Although its sub-title is "Travels in Andalusia," [A Rose for Winter] is no ordinary travel book. It is an account of a return visit to southernmost Spain, in mid-winter, after a break of fifteen years or more. The story begins and ends at Algeciras—"a handsome and lordly city," as Miss Rose Macaulay has described it. From here the author and his wife make visits to Seville, to Granada, where they spend Christmas, to Ecija, at other seasons accounted the hottest place in Spain, and to an unnamed fishing village east of Malaga where Mr. Lee was living at the outbreak of the Civil War. Thence back to Algeciras—"after three months among the great white...