Author: Kate Lord Brown
- Fiction
- Ediciones B
- ISBN: 978-8415420408
- Release Date: 07-31-2013
Synopsis
En la zona montañosa de Valencia, una casa olvidada guarda sus secretos. Abandonada desde que las tropas de Franco arrasaron España en 1936, sus paredes se han desmoronado y el jardín ha sido invadido por la maleza. Guiada por una serie de cartas y una llave que su madre le ha dejado en herencia, Emma Temple abandona su trabajo como perfumista en Londres para devolver su antiguo esplendor a la ahora ruinosa casa de campo. A medida que esta va revelando sus secretos, Emma se sumerge cada vez más en la historia de su abuela, una enfermera británica que pasó la Guerra Civil en España como voluntaria. Pronto comprende que una cosa es querer dejar atrás el pasado y otra muy distinta que este te lo permita.
High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, the garden, laden with orange blossom, grown wild. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Guided by a series of letters and a key bequeathed in her mother's will, she has left her job as London's leading perfumier to restore this dilapidated villa to its former glory. It is the perfect retreat: a wilderness redolent with strange and exotic scents, heavy with the colours and sounds of a foreign time. But for her grandmother, Freya, a British nurse who stayed here during Spain's devastating civil war, Emma's new home evokes terrible memories. As the house begins to give up its secrets, Emma is drawn deeper into Freya's story: a story of crushed idealism, of lost love, and of families ripped apart by war. She soon realises it is one thing letting go of the past, but another when it won't let go of you.
A story of lost love and family secrets set between modern day Valencia and the Spanish Civil War, where a forgotten house guards its secrets. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Guided by letters and a key bequeathed in her mother's will, shes left her job as London's leading perfumier to restore this dilapidated villa to its former glory.
