Four stories, whose settings are different but share a similar atmosphere, form the microcosm that Clara Pastor skilfully and sensitively recreates for this volume, constructed from wanderings through memory, with its infinite paths, and the guesswork employed by the characters to bridge the distance – sometimes an abyss – which often separates the from those closest to them. The protective network of family and childhood homes thus become a longed for refuge for memory in the face of the disenchantments of adult life but also turn into invisible spiderwebs. Subtle and suggestive, the stories of Voces al amanecer (Voices at Dawn) reveal themselves to the reader with the familiarity of a shared secret.