La vida cuando era nuestra

Synopsis of La vida cuando era nuestra

«La vida cuando era nuestra» is the historical novel by Marian Izaguirre, published by Lumen in hardcover (416 pages, in Spanish).

In 1951 Madrid, Lola runs a second-hand bookshop with her husband Matías and longs for the life of illusions before the Civil War. Her encounter with Alice, a woman who lives for books, takes the narrative to early 20th-century England, where a girl searches for her parents. A tribute to reading and friendship.

«La vida cuando era nuestra» belongs to Lumen's Narrativa collection and was translated into ten languages.

For readers of historical fiction and stories about books, female friendship, and the Spanish postwar period.