97/2020. A heavy-handed farce set amongst English emigrants living in Malaga in Spain in the late 1960s. This isn't a well-written novel and the humour has no subtlety, although the satire is scattershot enough to have passages that will amuse/offend a wide variety of readers.

Warning for passing mention of the presumed rape, resulting pregnancy, and gonorrhoea, of a 12 year old girl.
Warning for the passing mention twice of a 14 year old boy employed as a companion by an adult man.
I don't usually bother to warn for the following in novels of this date but in both English and Spanish there's also copious swearing, slurs on women, slurs on homosexuals, racial slurs, and non-prescription drug use.

Quotes

Libertarians never change: "He was a member of the eccentric race of fiscophobes, Englishmen who would do anything and live anywhere, no matter how bored and miserable they might be, rather than stay at home and pay English taxes. Sweeting, however, carried fiscophobia - as he carried all else - to extremes and, to avoid even the modest local rates on house or land, spent his life in a boat, cruising round and round the Mediterranean. He was a poor sailor and loathed the sea: he was of a violent disposition and detested authority; and, between his navigational disasters and his assaults on marine officials and coastguards, he paid out in fines and compensation what would have amply maintained a house in Grosvenor Square. But Mr Sweeting did not view the matter in this light. Monies in respect of a douanier's broken jaw or a harbour master's shattered window, as he saw it, were well and usefully laid out, whereas, handed over to bureaucrats and spent on social welfare, they were simply frittered away."

Dangerously political social satire in Franco's Spain: "Her day had been so crowded that she had momentarily forgotten this all-important fixture. It was to be held by the Provincial Governor's wife in honour of the Generalissimo's wife, who had graciously consented to open a lunatic asylum, larger than any other in Spain; and everyone who mattered was bound to be there." ( )

2 copies with original covers