Maria Climent

A hilarious, brazen, caustic comedy, bursting with erotic tension, which unsparingly mocks the midlife crisis.

At the age of 41, Julia is beginning to see her life as a bad joke: she's been stuck in a relational rut for years with a woman ten years her senior – when she had never previously been attracted to anyone of the same sex – and devotes all her time to looking after her three-year-old daughter, which is the right thing to do, of course... But does her whole life really come down to only that? What has happened to passion and adventure, the freedom to do as she pleases without being tied down by everyday domestic chores?

A music scholarship in London gives her the chance to get away from Barcelona for three months and free herself from her obligations. Now Julia can rediscover herself – whatever that may mean, resume her musical career and, reinvigorated by sudden, frenzied sexual desire, abandon herself to the adventure of living the life she was missing out on. However, Julia will approach a point of no return, caught between the life she wants to build and the one she is about to leave behind.

“Punt de no retorn saddens us, arouses us, and scares us because it tells the story of an ordinary drama—without superfluous whistles and bells—as if it were neither ordinary nor a drama.”—El País

“Climent writes with a naturalness and an ironic selfawareness that place her a step above most authors today...” —La Vanguardia

“... a naturalness and realism unfettered by dogmas.”—El Punt Avui

“Punt de no retorn stands out for its numerous sex scenes–though not erotic ones–described with praiseworthy verbal inventiveness and great poise. The prose, not at all pretentious, is sustained by the agility of this voice, almost histrionic at times, and by the numerous plausible dialogues, which bring to mind an easy audiovisual adaptation of the book, such as a film or a TV series.” —El Periódico