'In my city there were seven men who wore bowler hats. They always went about together. They were serious, stuffy, wore only black and twirled their moustaches.
Brenda would never have imagined that her daily life could so easily be tipped into chaos. One cold and rainy afternoon an encounter with a charming stranger sets off a chain of lies that will shake the very core of her life.
The novel tells the story of Hayat, a young survivor of the 1948 massacre in Deir Yassin, a small village near Jerusalem. Twenty years later, that girl-turned-witness talks again about fear, memory and past events.
Inspired by an episode that took place in Madrid in 1939, the narrator of this story recounts the passionate and turbulent relationship of her parents, and how her father's overbearing personality and her mother's weak heart set the tone for the w
30th November 1803: a corvette sets sail from the port of La Coruña to much cheering and applause. On board are twenty-two orphaned children whose mission consists of taking the recently discovered smallpox vaccine to the territories of Ultramar.
Guillermo is tired of aeroplanes, hotels and different time zones… Now, he is considering making some radical changes in his life so he can spend more time with his family, friends and maybe even find love.
Bay's gone blank. She doesn't remember her house built on the red earth of Western Australia, nor that her garden is on the coral reef of Ningaloo. She has forgotten that she fought to save the oceans and that humpback whales were her family.