The writer, who died in November 2021, left a novel in which she imagined the effects of the pandemic in a dystopian Spain. The book arrives in bookstores tomorrow.

Eighteen days after the state of emergency was decreed that confined all Spaniards to their homes, Almudena Grandes opened a new notebook on April 1, 2020, and started what ended up being ‘Todo va a mejorar’.

The posthumous novel by the writer from Madrid arrives in bookstores on Tuesday, October 11, —when the first anniversary of her death, on November 27, approaches— with a concise last chapter and some final notes from her widower, the poet, writer, and director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero.  In those last five pages, he explains the process of the book, how Grandes worked on it, and his final contribution after her death to finish telling the story, according to the plan carefully detailed by the novelist in her notebooks, something he did with each of her books.

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