A few months ago my friend Isabel Navarro Sánchez told me that she had nearly finished writing her new novel. Would I allow her to use one of my paintings for the cover of the book? Well, of course, and with pleasure and gratitude.
The Silence of The Willow (El Silencio del Sauce), with its intriguing cover, arrived in my California mailbox a couple of days ago. The novel begins with a woman who disappears and continues as a story about daughters and mothers, about secrets, jealosies and vengeance, where home is not a haven, nor a refuge, but a place of menace and danger.
It has not yet been translated into English, but I’m enjoying the shadows and suspense and I’m sure Spanish speakers who love elegantly written mysteries will enjoy reading it too.