by Shena Mackay · Palabrero Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789491953071
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«El vergel en llamas» is the contemporary fiction novel by Shena Mackay, published by Palabrero Press in paperback (280 pages, in Spanish).
April moves to Stonebridge and befriends Ruby, a restless, lively girl. Together they get up to all sorts of mischief, but both hide secrets: April's parents run a tea room frequented by eccentrics, and a party reveals the truth about Ruby. April keeps quiet about what torments her; a nostalgic look at 1950s England.
Translation from English by Inés Clavero Hernández. First Spanish edition, published on December 1, 2016. Finalist for the Booker Prize.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in novels about friendship, secrets and British rural settings.
Shena Mackay FRSL is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for The Orchard on Fire, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003 for Heligoland.
