Las cosas de la melancolía

Elisa, almost fifty, is no longer the same person who broke up with Zaro, the love of her life, years ago. Now she feels totally different: freer, more uninhibited, less cowardly. And stronger too, because the support of her great friends Mabel, Anacris, Susa and Noelia (whom she met in Zumba class and with whom she got along because they had something in common: clumsiness when dancing) have helped her to get back together and love yourself. All of the friends, except Noelia, are around fifty and are familiar with the changes typical of their age, illness and loss, family and sentimental ups and downs, toxic relationships and, ultimately, all the crises that life awaits them. One of those complications will occur when Elisa and Zaro's paths cross again through the pages of the latest novel that he has just published. And how do you remember an old love, the most important of all, when she is a bookseller and the person who broke your heart is one of the most famous novelists of the moment? Luckily for Elisa, she has the best friends that she could ask for, on whom she will rely to overcome any obstacle, no matter how painful it may be, with tiramisu and confidences. But these friends also have their own obstacles, and Elisa will have to lend a hand so they can overcome them. With a dizzying narrative pulse, with fluid, agile and exciting prose, Carmen Santos composes a brave and fun novel about destructive loves, loves that return from the past and unexpected loves. But, above all, about friendship.