I returned yesterday from 14 days in the Sierra Nevada about 60 miles south east of Granada itself where we also had a long weekend.
I read John Gill's book Andalucia: A Cultural History first published by Signal in 2008 during my stay. He writes about the amazing success of Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons (published 1999). Chris came in for criticism by Margaret Moran who also had a holiday home close by:
"His loudest critic was, bizarrely, the Labour MP for Luton South, Margaret Moran, who also owns a cortijo outside their nearest town, Orgiva. Moran sparked small riots when she began blocking communal paths that cross her property, and in the well publicised hubbub that ensued she accused Stewart of singlehandedly triggering an influx of ghastly Brits into the Alpujarras. Her property remains a "holiday home". One unimpressed neighbour was moved to comment that the "Socialist" politician was behaving like an English imperialist from the last days of the Raj."