Berta Isla

Berta Isla and Tomás Nevinson met in Madrid very young, and their determination to spend their lives together was very prompt, without suspecting that an intermittent coexistence and then a disappearance awaited them. Tomás, half Spanish and half English, is highly gifted with languages and accents, and that means that, during his studies at Oxford, the Crown sets eyes on him. Any given day, "a stupid day" that could have been saved, will determine the rest of his existence, as well as his wife's. Berta Isla is the immersive and exciting story of a wait and an evolution, that of its protagonist. Also from the fragility and tenacity of a love relationship condemned to secrecy and concealment, pretense and conjecture, and ultimately resentment mixed with loyalty. Or, as a quote from Dickens says towards the end of the book, it is the proof that "each beating heart is a secret to the closest heart, the one that dozes and beats next to it". And it is also the story of those who want to stop misfortunes and intervene in the universe, to end up finding themselves banished from it.