Susan Knight is a writer and critic, author of two novels, The Invisible Woman and Grimaldi’s Garden, and a work of non-fiction entitled Where the Grass is Greener: Voices of Immigrant Women in Ireland. On a recent holiday to Cuba, she strayed on to the Hemingway trail, ‘For Ever and Ever’ is, nevertheless, neither about Hemingway nor about Gregorio Fuentes, who is said to have inspired The Old Man and the Sea, but a work purely of the imagination.