by Victoria Holt · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422653219
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«El ópalo negro» is the romantic novel by Victoria Holt, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (379 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Carmel, a young woman raised by Doctor Marline and his wife without knowing her origins. On reaching adolescence, she feels a strong attraction to Lucian, heir to a neighboring aristocratic family. The death of Mrs. Marline forces her to travel to Australia, where she will discover the truth about her past and a better future.
The original title of the work is The Black Opal and it was originally published in English in 1993. The Spanish translation is by Diana Falcón.
For those who enjoy romantic novels with a gothic air, family mysteries and female protagonists seeking their place in the world.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
