Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

The young seamstress Sira Quiroga leaves Madrid months before the up-rising, dragged by her unbridled love for a man whom she hardly knows. Together they settle in Tangiers, a mundane city, exotic and vibrant where all the unthinkable can become real, even betrayal and desertion. Alone and hounded by debts, Sira moves to Tetuan, capital of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco. With unspeakable schemes and the help of friends of ill repute, she... - Read more

  Sira Quiroga—the protagonist of The Time in Between— is back, walking firmly towards maturity Four destinies. Two missions. One woman. Sira again plunges the reader in an unforgettable period. The Great War has comes to an end and the world begins a tortuous reconstruction. After her duties as a collaborator with the British secret services, Sira faces the future longing for serenity. However, this will not be so. Destiny has... - Read more

The Seamstress continues to conquer Europe. We've just received copies of the twelfth edition in The Netherlands. With the title Het geluid van de nacht, the publishing house Wereldbibliotheek has sold more than 60.000 copies of the book since it came out in April 2012. The Seamstress , with more than a million readers in Spain, has been turned into a successful TV series and awarded prizes such as the Ciudad de Cartagena to the best... - Read more

Last Friday, the 6 th  of September, television networks  Antena 3 and Boomerang TV presented the pilot episode of the series El tiempo entre costuras  ( The Seamstress ), during a party for the Vitoria-Gasteiz Television Festival (FesTVal). The adaptation for television of the novel written by María Dueñas and translated into more than 30 languages, is the much anticipated Autumn Prime Time launch for... - Read more

In the 12 th of November the list of nominated novels was presented for the; “ Internacional IMPAC Dublín Literary Award, 2013 ”. The list, containing 154 titles sellected by public libaries from 120 cities in 44 countries and 19 languages, will compete for one of the most international literary awards. Among the selected include; “ El tiempo entre costuras ” (The Seamstress/ The Time Between) by María... - Read more