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Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things. Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life’s passion for writing, even if it means publishing under a man’s name.

In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man’s pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her.

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her child’s safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.

Este curso está lleno de novedades. Las delegadas son dos chicas repetidoras que tienen que ganarse a sus compañeras. Además, han llegado alumnas nuevas, Gladys y Mirabel, dispuestas a lo que sea para no seguir en la escuela.

Aquí se dan cita nueve autores nacidos entre 1976 y 1981 a sendas orillas del Atlántico. Son cinco magníficas escritoras, cuatro magníficos narradores. Voces maduras, quizá de floración tardía. Son nuestros nueve viejísimos cuentistas. Hace dieciocho años, cuando nació Reservoir Books, tenían alrededor de dieciocho. Y sobre eso escriben precisamente. Son miradas nostálgicas, agridulces, satíricas, elegíacas... realizadas desde el ecuador de la segunda edad, cuando se acerca la cuarentena, quizá bajo amenaza de próximos cambios vitales.

Pat e Isabel O'Sullivan quieren ir al mismo colegio que sus amigas, pero su madre ha decidido enviarlas al Santa Clara. Las mellizas han aceptado el cambio, pero tienen un plan secreto...¡hacer diabluras hasta que las cambien de colegio!