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The first chapter of Cosas que pasan is called ‘The Whirlwind’, and the story as a whole has something of a whirlwind to it from beginning to end: a succession of not exactly everyday events, often awful or disturbing or stunning, which spin around and around the reader, revealing to them, little by little, something that at first might seem insufficiently developed. Novel?

This books is a novel about childhood and memories, a marvellous text which transports us in time and space by means of carefully ordered images of Barcelona. The experiences are so exquisite that it is easy to feel the protagonist's emotions, from her grazed knees covered in dust and blood to the feeling of loss that we felt when we said goodbye to our last day of the holidays.

Irene is in the later stages of her life and remembers something that happened when she was a very little girl that changed her life forever. In just a few days a secret would be born that she would keep secret from that point onwards, a time divided between the seaside at Granada and her definitive move to Madrid.

From the My Little Heroes series, this book is exclusively dedicated to the most creative women in history. Frida Kahlo, Coco Chanel, J. K.