La extraordinaria historia de la mujer que escribi en la sombra algunas de las obras ms importantes del siglo XX. -Por la autora de Mujeres que compran flores.

La fascinante aventura de una mujer silenciada por la historia oficial… hasta ahora.

Cuando a la directora teatral Noelia Cid le encargan estrenar Sortilegio, la obra perdida del reputado dramaturgo Gregorio Martnez Sierra, decide informarse sobre ella a travs de los documentos que conserv su mujer, Mara Lejrraga. Sin embargo, a travs de su investigacin Noelia no slo se sumerge en la compleja relacin amorosa entre Mara y Gregorio sino que va a encontrarse con un misterio que lleva ms de un siglo sin resolver. Se ver entonces arrastrada por la vida llena de pasin, arte y feminismo de Mara, alguien que luch contra viento y marea por ejercer su vocacin y que vivi en primera lnea los grandes hitos del siglo pasado: el Madrid literario de los aos veinte, el Pars de la Belle poque, la lucha poltica de las mujeres durante la Segunda Repblica, el exilio tras la Guerra Civil, la ocupacin de Francia por los nazis o el glamour de la poca dorada de Hollywood. Adems descubriremos la versin ms humana de las grandes personalidades que fueron sus amigos y colaboradores como Juan Ramn Jimnez, Manuel de Falla o Federico Garca Lorca.

Vanessa Montfort ha tomado una figura casi desconocida de nuestra historia cultural para escribir una novela apasionada y maravillosa. -JULIA NAVARRO.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

“The extraordinary story of the woman who wrote some of the most important works of the 20th century in the shadows. -By the author of Women Who Buy Flowers.

The fascinating adventure of a woman silenced by history… until now.

When the theater director Noelia Cid was commissioned to premiere Sortilegio, the lost work of the renowned playwright Gregorio Martnez Sierra, she decided to research it using the documents kept by his wife, Mara Lejrraga. However, through her research, Noelia not only immerses herself in the complex love relationship between Mara and Gregorio, but also encounters a mystery that has been unsolved for more than a century. She’ll then be carried away by the passion, art and feminism of Mara’s life, someone who fought against all odds to exercise her vocation and who lived during some of the last century’s greatest milestones: the literary Madrid of the 1920s, the Paris of the Belle poque, women’s political struggle during the Second Republic, the exile after the Civil War, the Nazi occupation of France, and the glamor of the golden age of Hollywood. We will also discover the most human version of the great personalities that were her friends and collaborators such as Juan Ramn Jimnez, Manuel de Falla, and Federico Garca Lorca.

“Vanessa Montfort has taken an almost unknown figure from our cultural history and written a passionate and wonderful novel.” -JULIA NAVARRO. “