Elena Davis left her PR job in the United States and went to live in the town of Sóller on the northwest coast of Mallorca, the biggest of the Balearic Islands, in 1959, ostensibly for four months, but which extended to forty-seven years. Her book ‘Witches, Oranges and Slingers: Half a Century on Mallorca’ describes her settling in and adjusting to conditions shockingly different from her previous life in the center of New York . What, no hot water? There are anecdotes about her Mallorquín neighbours and her adjustment to her new life.

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