Dondequiera que estés

A captivating novel that vindicates the power of love in all its forms and invites us to reflect about the importance of empathy and compassion as the essential engine of human relations.

The day in which she learns about her husband’s death, the famous writer Baltasar Mugaritz, María Noriega’s existence takes a sudden turn that she believes to be beyond redress. She has not only lost with one stroke that great love that very few are capable of finding in life, but his absence has left in its wake a string of unanswered questions that the recent window is unable to comprehend. Why was Baltasar on that road on that day when he should have been elsewhere? Where was he going? What does his death have to do with the mysterious calls he still receives on his cellphone? Is there any connection with the unfinished novel her husband was working on?

Little by little she decides to take the reins of her new life and leave behind the silence inhabited by her husband’s ghosts. But in order to rid herself of the past, the protagonist will have to delve amid the deepest secrets and face the demons that plagued the writer’s last days. On this journey she will cross paths with Lucas Urrutia Denvurg, a handsome and solitary doctor with Swedish roots who moves into the adjacent apartment and with whom she will establish a peculiar and a decisive relationship through the partition wall that separates them.

“Few writers possess the alchemic gift of transforming a “perfectly ordinary life” into a dazzling romantic adventure. Elena Moreno manages do so  thanks to her power to express with sharpness and sensibility.” Pepa Castro