Books by Carmen Martín Gaite

"A Proustian journey into the interior, a dazzling psychodrama and, arguably, one of the best novels out of Spain in recent decades" Kirkus ReviewsOn the day he is released from prison in Madrid, Leonardo learns of his parents' death in a car crash.

A 35-year-old woman who has lived hard and loved hard, has just lost her mother. Struggling to keep her curiosity about an inexplicable world intact, she finds her precarious equilibrium constantly besieged by resurfacing oddballs from her past and her own tendency to daydream.

An impassioned correspondence between two former school friends as they reach crisis in middle age, from the prize-winning Spanish novelist Carmen Martin GaiteSofia is a mother of three grown-up children and trapped in a loveless marriage to Eduardo.