DANCING WITH DUENDE is the story of a once successful writer and artist's search for the creative genius (DUENDE) that had impelled him, earlier in his life, to reach the highest levels of international acclaim. Now old, broken and forgotten, no longer possessed by the Duende's mysterious power to arouse the creative spirit, the protagonist sets out on a physical and emotional journey to challenge his duende and rediscover himself. Set in Spain's Andalusian countryside and Ireland's Aran Isles, the novel explores the emotional, physical and psychological stresses that tear at everyman's struggle for self identity in an increasing remote and impersonal world.