Dec 20, 2011 | The Globe and Mail
Spanish bestseller brings era between the wars vividly to life
Originally published in Spain in 2009, Maria Duenas's novel The Time in Between has now become an international bestseller.
Maria Dueñas stitches together love, war and intrigue for a suspenseful novel
Sira, the daughter of a humble seamstress from Madrid, is a naive young woman in her early 20s.
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Fiction Review: "The Time in Between"
Meet Sira, a young Spanish seamstress living a quiet life in pre-civil war Madrid -- until she decides to leave her respectable fianc for a scoundrel who promises her the world and then abandons her in Tangiers.