She was the younger sister of his best friend, in love with the colour yellow and who created her own sky full of invented constellations. He was the rebel in the leather jacket who used his biro to draw everything that moved him.

These are uncertain, unstable times, with the desire for a new republic and repeated attempts to overthrow the monarchy of Alfonso XIII.

"Wave of Cold" is not a novel about drugs and alcohol nor the descent into the hell of addiction. Nor is it a novel about the economic crisis, nor how this has changed the face of Madrid forever.