Stories of married women
by Cristina Campos
Planeta Award Finalist 2022
Husbands, lovers and friends come and go, but love, true love, remains forever.
A sincere and current novel about marriage, friendship, desire and love.
Gabriela is a woman married to a man she loves. The one she adores. A man who begs her for sex once a month. And Gabriela, because she loves him, because she adores her husband, without wanting it, she grants it to him. But every morning, Gabriela comes across a stranger, a man whom she, incomprehensibly, desires.
Gabriela is a journalist and works alongside her editorial colleagues, Silvia and Cósima, women with whom she has forged a beautiful and solid friendship. Like Gabriela, they also hide small secrets from their husbands.
Stories of Married Women is a powerful novel that delves into feminine intimacy and naturally narrates the reality of many contemporary women trapped in lives they never imagined.
Cristina Campos, finalist for the 2022 Planeta Prize, triumphed among readers with her first novel, Lemon bread with poppy seeds. This ended up becoming a long-seller since its publication in 2016, it has been translated into ten languages ​​and its film adaptation has achieved great success with the public.
Cristina Campos (Barcelona, ​​1975) has a degree in Humanities from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She finishes her studies at the University of Heidelberg, where she also works as coordinator of the International Film Festival of that city. After returning to her native country, her career began in the film sector, a profession that she combines with writing. Her first novel, Lemon Bread with Poppy Seeds, has become a long-seller with more than 250,000 copies sold since its publication in 2016. It has been translated into ten languages ​​and its film adaptation achieved great success with the public.
Source: https://algunoslibrosbuenos.com/historias-de-mujeres-casadas
