Las hijas de la criada

Synopsis of Las hijas de la criada

«Las hijas de la criada» is the novel that won the Premio Planeta de Novela 2023 by Sonsoles Ónega, published by Editorial Planeta in hardcover (480 pages, in Spanish).

Set in the pazo de Espíritu Santo, in an extraordinary Galicia at the beginning of the 20th century, the story follows Clara and Catalina, two girls born on the same February night in 1900 whose destinies seem already written. An unexpected revenge shakes their lives and those of the Valdés family, while the matriarch Inés fights to make her true daughter the heir to an empire in an era that denies women control over their own destiny.

Spanish-language edition of the volume published on November 8, 2023 in the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection.

Recommended for readers of historical novels and family sagas with secrets, revenge and female protagonists.