Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Desamparo is the bittersweet saga of a woman who returns to Portugal for the first time in more than fifty years to meet the mother she'd lost when taken off at three years of age by her father, to Brazil. Written with intelligence, compassion and dark humor, and set in an imaginary village in Portugal that serves as a microcosm and a crossroads for the global ebb and flow of immigrants and emigrants, strivers and losers, a community of the... - Read more

Literary salons represented one of the most significant forms of socialization among the upper classes of the 18th century. Led by a group of women who couldn't be classified as feminists in the contemporary sense of the term, these women knew how to capitalize on the opportunities provided by social norms to open the doors of their mansions to thinkers, scientists, and artists, thus decisively influencing the course of their time. Coinciding... - Read more

For many historians, Inés de Castro was an intriguing and able woman, moved by ambition, in whose aura political intrigues were schemed and interesting palatial shenanigans played out. For poets and playwright, a lovely woman that lived one of history’s most fascinating passions. Maria Pilar Queralt del Hierro narrates with vivaciousness and agility the story of a love that beat death, the life of a woman that lived with passion... - Read more