The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman
Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of twenty-four bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune and City of the Beasts. A Chilean immigrant herself, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes and in 1996 founded the Isabel Allende Foundation. She lives in California. isabelallende.com
An autobiographical meditation on feminism, power and womanhood …
Full of Isabel's wisdom and warm words
*Grazia*
In her small, potent polemic . . . Isabel Allende writes about the
toxic effects of “machismo”, combining wit with anger as she picks
apart the patriarchy
*Independent*
An autobiographical meditation on feminism, power and womanhood . .
. Full of Isabel's wisdom and warm words
*Grazia*
Her thoughts, language and ideas traverse fluidly through ideas of
gender, historic injustices, her marriages and bodily experiences
and literary references . . . Allende’s love for women is
palpable
*Sydney Morning Herald*
Allende has everything it takes: the ear, the eye, the mind, the
heart, the all-encompassing humanity
*New York Times*
Isabel Allende is a grand storyteller who writes with surpassing
compassion and insight. Her place as an icon of world literature
was secured long ago. She will be celebrated, by readers and
writers alike, for generations to come
*Khaled Hosseini*
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