Three women, two centuries, one object. The first novel by Nuria Pérez (Salamandra, 2024), the voice behind Gabinete de Curiosidades.
Mary works near the brand-new Alexandra Palace in London, summer 1873, and does something in secret. Adela, London again, summer 1998, has a marriage in trouble and a mysterious correspondence. Marta, Madrid, that same summer, guards a room in the Museo Sorolla and swaps secret messages with someone she has never met.
Guilt, obsession, what’s expected of women, and how a single private decision ripples down the generations. It’s the same taste for small history and ordinary objects that makes the podcast so good, now stretched to novel length. Which object ties them together? The reviews carefully avoid saying, and so will I.
https://www.naoslibros.es/libros/no-tocaras/978-84-19456-52-6/