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In this novel, Yolanda Scheuber uses the time honoured technique of racconto, as well as employing a first person narrative, enabling her to reconstruct the life of Eleanor(Leonor) of Habsburg, daughter of Joanna(Juana) I of Castile (Joanna the Mad), and Philip(Felipe) of Austria (Philip the Handsome).

On the shores of the Aegean Sea, in the long-forgotten times of King Minos, stands Crete in all its glory. The people living there are at the edges of a land that is growing more violent. Until now. When Stern, the youngest son of Sear returns to the palace in Knossos, after a long absence, he discovers the peace he remembers has been converted to distrust.

Maria Roderich (The Old Lady), Maria Magí (The Mrs) and Maria Costa are three women who, throughout almost a century, have run La Principal, the most important house in the village of Pous, in the heart of the grape-producing region of La Abadia. Those three, grandmother, daughter, have made the vines flourish due to a series of transformations that have kept the business going.

This is a ghost story. A novel that begins with a return and ends with a howl. The narrator of Les possesions travels from Barcelona to Palma to try to halt the paranoid conspiracy spiral of her father who, in his retirement, has gone from being a placid high school teacher to launching a legal battle against an alleged urban crime.