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'She writes from the heart. The reader is swept along by the energy of her prose, her brilliance as a storyteller, and the sheer force and warmth of her personality' Independent
This is Isabel Allende's magnificent sequel to her bestselling memoir Paula. The Sum of Our Days, told with lyricism and disarming candour, addresses the Allende family's struggle to come to terms with Paula's eventual death, aged just twenty-eight.
Isabel surr, ands herself with her wild and vibrant relatives, a boisterous 'tribe' whose joys, heartbreaks, passions and disasters she chronicles with verve and lively wit. There's no stone left unturned, to the chagrin of some as Isabel quips, no Chilean wants a writer in the family - but she writes of love, spiritualism, drug addiction and religious fervour with wisdom and sensitivity. The sorrow of Paula's death lingers, but ultimately this is a memoir of quiet triumph a faithful reflection of grieving and remembering from one of the world's most luminous storytellers.
'The Sum of Our Days is positively bursting with love and hilarity... you'll feel a hundred times richer for reading it' Sunday Telegraph
ISBN:9780007299850
