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The young protagonist of this story has been watching her neighbours for a long time. Their behaviour provides the answers she needs to understand what love really means. We learn from a very young age that love, a fundamental experience for human beings, is one of the compasses by which we guide ourselves through life.

Marta Ferrer, a middle-aged married women with two children who works in Barcelona’s treasury department, and whose life has been changed in the last few months by her fight against breast cancer. But something seems to be different since her last radiotherapy session.

"If only a Meerkat like me hadn't read that advertisement asking for pairs of animals of all species to undertake a voyage to a new world! If I hadn't, I wouldn't have got on that cursed ark while the great flood swamped the world, or have seen, in the middle of that chaos, the animals disappear, one by one, without trace."

Hugo and Olivia have been asking their parents for a dog for years and, after much begging, crying and promises, they're getting one! But their happiness is short lived. Troya, the big-eyed puppy who has the family entranced, disappears without a trace and everything suggests the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood. Who, though? Laughter is guaranteed at number 24, Calle de la Pera.