by Laia Perearnau i Colomer · Columna CAT · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466429221
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«Francesca de Barcelona» is the historical novel by Laia Perearnau i Colomer, published by Columna CAT in hardcover (464 pages, in Catalan).
Barcelona, 1382. Francesca, a fifteen-year-old Christian girl, helps her midwife grandmother and trains in medicinal plants, though she dreams of being a surgeon, a profession forbidden to women. She exchanges knowledge with Astruc, a young Jewish man from a family of doctors, while falling in love with Martí, her childhood friend, and defying the limits of her era.
Winner of the Premi Nèstor Luján de Novel·la Històrica 2022, it is Laia Perearnau's first adult novel and belongs to the Clàssica collection from Columna CAT.
For lovers of Barcelona's history and historical fiction set in the Middle Ages.
