| ISBN |
9781742614021 (pbk.) |
| 1742614027 (pbk.) |
| Name |
Dueñas, Maria, 1964- author. |
| Uniform title |
Misión olvido. English |
| Title |
The heart has its reasons / María Dueñas ; [translated by Elie Kerrigan]. |
| Published |
Sydney, N.S.W. Pan Macmillan, 2014. |
| Description |
373 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Translated from the Spanish. |
| First published as Misión olvido in Spain 2012 by Editorial Planeta. |
| Summary |
A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions. But in delving into the past, Blanca finds herself simultaneously awakened to the present by Daniel Carter, a charismatic professor with crucial knowledge about the dead writer that he has never before revealed. Amid this web of passion, conflict, and hidden feelings, including her own, Blanca advances like an avid detective, refusing to quit, and ultimately discovers startling answers that resonate deeply in her own life. |
| Subjects |
Life change events -- Fiction |
| Married women -- Fiction |
| Runaway husbands -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction |
| Other Names |
Kerrigan, Elie translator. |
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