Teresa Muñoz

A family saga full of secrets and emotions.

Teresa Muñoz is a new talent on the Catalan literary scene. In this moving and intriguing second novel, she takes us to Barcelona’s post-war Gothic Quarter to weave a family story of crime, secrets, frustrated loves and inconfessable sins in a dark period of injustice and misery.

Angela is about to turn 50, and hasn’t been with anyone since she lost her partner. Before her death, her mother entrusted her with a family secret in the hopes that she would write a novel about it. Angela starts to write in the old flat inherited from her mother. During her breaks, she goes out onto the balcony for some fresh air. This space becomes the focal point for a new love when she meets her new neighbour, Hector, to whom she feels attracted. Her encounters with Hector are interspersed with explorations of her family’s past. Angela discovers that her own salvation will only be possible if she makes her mother’s history her own, starting with a flame that burns and reveals all the secrets hidden under the weight of a vile dictatorship.

The literary debut of a new and promising female voice 

For some time now, Sabina has been suffering from a series of worrying symptoms: nightmares, panic attacks, tachycardia and fainting. In addition to her natural concern for her mother's health as she suffers from Alzheimer's, there is the chronic coldness between herself and her husband, with whom she has maintained a disenchanted marriage for four years, purely out of inertia and the fear of being alone. She is also forced to resign from her job as a graphic designer. 

Sabina knows that something is not working in her life, and it's not her mother's illness, the collapse of her marriage, or her job problems. It's something more: unfinished business from her past, a blank page that she must rewrite if she wants to regain control of her life.

“A new voice capable of unsettling the reader.” –Time Out

“A jewel, a diamond in the rough.” –La pequeña librería

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When the monster enters his room in the middle of the night, Nil concentrates on the dinosaur stickers on the wall, twenty-seven altogether, and the animals magically come to life until the monster leaves. During the day Nil pretends that everything is normal: He tries to focus on his studies, he plays Fortnite with his friends and seeks out the company of his inseparable beagle dog. At his age he knows that monsters don't exist, but how else can he describe his uncle?

Since his father died, Nil has set himself two goals: to finish assembling the robot they were building together and to drive the monster out of his home once and for all. These are the two most difficult challenges in his life and to achieve them he must pluck up the courage to trust the person who loves him the most, his mother, without being afraid to reveal everything the monster forces him to do and forbids him to tell.

“Muñoz carries out an exercise in raising awareness, highlighting a social scourge that affects the most vulnerable group, children, in a story that is free of cynicism or morbid fascination.” Núvol