The heart has its reasons

By María Dueñas

Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Research, Authors, fiction, Barcelona (spain), fiction, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Man-woman relationships, fiction, College teachers, California, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Spanish Authors, Literature, College teachers, fiction

Description: "A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions"--Amazon.com. When her longtime marriage abruptly ends in the wake of her husband's infidelity, Madrid college professor Blanca Perea struggles to rebuild her own life by researching that of an enigmatic Spanish writer who died decades earlier.