All those things I'll tell you tomorrow (Amount, 2022) is a romantic novel by the well-known author Elísabet Benavent. This is one of the latest novels by this prolific writer who since 2013 has not stopped publishing books and achieving success. So it's a safe bet if you like the author, even though this is a much more thoughtful novel than the rest of the books she's written.
In this story the protagonist Miranda is a bit confused. She believed she had a wonderful life, both professionally and romantically, since she lived happily with her partner, Tristán. Therefore, accepting the blow of her march will be an unexpected situation that Miranda wishes had never occurred. I wish I could go back. But time is something that, apparently, we cannot change. No?
All those things I'll tell you tomorrow
I wish I could go back
Miranda is the deputy editor of a fashion magazine. She lives quietly with Tristán, with whom she believes she has a happy and pleasant relationship. The news that he wants to leave her side takes her, of course, by surprise. Something has gone wrong and she has not been able to see it in time. If it were possible to go back, to retrace the steps and the mistakes that have led her to this situation... However, this seems like a thing of a fantasy and impossible to carry out. The past cannot be changed and our mistakes have repercussions. Miranda is in a mess and looks back with some confusion and longing.
Miranda is a character who narrates her story in the first person. Thanks to the fact that her narration is more focused on her sentimental journey and her personal growth, it is possible to know her more intimately. Her voice is essential and Miranda becomes a sincere character stripped of ornaments.. It will be the key to the story and its evolution gives meaning to the whole plot.
A second chance
After stopping at the synopsis of the story, it is already possible to draw an idea as a conclusion, and that is that All those things I'll tell you tomorrow It is a novel with a more prudent plot. But it's not boring, on the contrary, It is stimulating because it leads to reflection on our affective ties in a pleasant way through fiction.. If Miranda's relationship has gone wrong, she has to review her own history, giving herself the chance to relive it all over again. Will your decisions now be more accurate? Will they affect your future? Despite traversing the future past with more questions than answers, there is no drama, only responsibility and consequences. In this sense it is quite an interesting romance novel.
All those things I'll tell you tomorrow it is a novel with temporal twists and (some) romance. It is quite peculiar within its genre, since it uses these temporary turns fleeing from the fantastic to focus on a much more home-based plot, since what matters is the failed relationship, the consequences and feelings created from the breakup and the actions taken in this regard.
The rhythm is pleasant and in the narration you can see this growth process of the protagonist that can be quite interesting for readers who are looking for an entertaining romantic story at the same time that they need a little push in their sentimental relationships. They may not get a second chance, like Miranda, but they will learn to channel emotions or take a look inside. In this sense of travel and learning, it can be said that the story is quite round, despite its fragmentation, with an adequate and quite coherent ending.
Conclusions
Benavent presents a somewhat daring novel, although suggestive in which the important thing is not the final result, but the path and the process of change and maturity. Because uncertainty in life exists and Miranda teaches us to learn to live with it. Therefore, in addition to originality, All those things I'll tell you tomorrow it brings temperance and is full of new airs that give the genre surprise and a melancholic beauty. A book where you can dive into the love situation to think about and rethink relationshipsas well as yourself.
About the author
Elísabet Benavent is the romantic comedy writer of the moment in Spain. He was born 38 years ago in Gandia (Valencia), although his success transcends national borders with its already four million copies sold. His novels (more than 20) have been translated into several languages and have been published in different countries.
He trained in Audiovisual Communication at the Cardenal Herrera University (CEU) and then did a Master's in Communication and Art at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her writing career took off thanks to the saga Valeria, a collection of novels by a young writer and her wacky friends. Benavent is very comfortable with the genre she writes and in which she is already a benchmark after having written various titles, some of them adapted to series and film format. His works include sagas, bilogies and other novels, such as A perfect tale (2020) The art of cheating karma (2021) or the recent How (not) I wrote our story (2023)