Ten stories in which music, wit and lyricism combine to create a dreamlike atmosphere that will create in the reader a sensation similar to that evoked by the stories of Clarice Lispector. Maths and the music of life create the sonorous timbre of this first book of stories by Almudena Sanchez. A mother driving, adrift, through back roads with her two children on the back seat; two old people in a cable car fulfilling their last dream; a brilliant, unemployed student who ends up working as an astronaut; and lots and lots of adolescent girls variously fighting, learning instruments or falling in love with swimmers, fill the pages of this likeable, enchanting anthology. If the chimera of an adult adolescence, of a jovial later life is really possible, the stories of Almudena Sánchez take a chance on that dream.