After the Fall : Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain - Tobias Buck Hardback and that 22-year-old from Ballyfin

and that 22-year-old from Ballyfin

Welfare Officer Helen Crowther has enough on her plate between her hectic job

But when they form an unexpected friendship

containing a pair of severed hands

After the Fall : Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain - Tobias Buck Hardback and that 22-year-old from BallyfinTobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a generation. Capital and country were reeling from a series of economic shocks that had brought Spain to the brink of ruin. The housing boom had dramatically turned to bust, a large chunk of the nation's banking system was in state hands, businesses were closing across the country, debt was spiralling out of control and unemployment levels