Carmen Cervera

Esta historia que tienen es sus manos es mi vida. La vida de un hombre hecho a sí mismo, que creció sin los afectos de sus padres, porque ambos se me fueron demasiado pronto y llevo añorándoles toda una vida. De esa carencia nace este libro. Mi intención al escribirlo fue traspasarles un poco de mi ser a mis nietos, pero lo cierto es que este libro puede ser leído por cualquier persona que al inicio o medio de su vida quiera aprender de los aciertos y errores que hemos cometido los más mayores. Un libro que parte de lo íntimo para hablar de lo general; de nuestras pérdidas, y...

Excerpt from Diccionario Biografico Matritense Desde que en 1789 publicó Álvarez Baena una obra titulada Hijos de Madrid ilustres, nadie ha querido continuar este trabajo, y, sin embargo, en tan largo lapso de tiempo, que com prende más de ciento veinte años, no han dejado de publicarse articulos necrológicos de tal o cual personaje, politico eminente, abogado distinguido, periodista insigne ó escritor eximio, que circularon en la prensa periódica, dados a luz por algún compañero de profesión, conocedor de sus relevantes méritos; mas tales trabajos se hallaban diseminados en...

The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women? Three Women is a record of unmet needs,...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...