"Even when we're old," she said in self-mockery, "we never stop being the child we once were." These are the words of Aurora, the protagonist of The Smell of the Waves, but they could have been spoken by anyone. The smell of the waves is, in fact, the smell of memories, those moments imprinted in our hearts forever: a phrase, a caress over a cup of coffee, a bicycle ride, a piece of pie… The Smell of the Waves is the story of a woman, but it also immediately becomes our own, because deep down all lives—Aurora's, our own—are not so different: love, hopes, passion, friendship, pain and joy… These feelings lie inside each of us. The time and place which it has been our fate to live in are only the clothing of the soul. Page after page, we see ourselves reflected.