Between blues, a novel about the healing power of the past and the importance of valuing the present

Between Blues is one of the novels that is giving a lot to talk about. The fact that its author participates in one of the literature pages managed by a renowned writer has made seca even better known. But do you know her?

If not, and we have already piqued your curiosity about what you can find in it, below we are going to give you all the information we have found to encourage you to read it or comment if you have already done so.

Who wrote Between Blues

The first thing you should know about Between the Blues is that Its author is Ana Hernández Sarriá. It is not his first book, in fact he already has several on the market.

Ana was born in 1988 and her student career led her to study Fashion Design in Madrid. Afterwards, she moved to New York where she lived for 8 years working for luxury companies.

After that stage, He returned to Madrid where he found work at Loewe. However, he no longer liked that job so much and decided to leave it to open a restaurant in the city center.

Despite his venture, he left everything in search of his happiness and headed to the Maldives, where the pandemic caught him.

Now In addition to writing, he also organizes trips to visit parts of the Maldives.

Sarriá wrote his first book in 2014. The second in 2018, better known. And her third book is a very special one for her since it tells her own experience.

And that third book, Between Blues, It has marked the author's entry into the genre of autofiction. That is, a genre in which what the author experienced is told but with certain nuances of fiction, including the main character himself.

What is the novel Between Blues about?

Between Blues, as it appears on the book's cover, is defined as "a novel about the healing power of the past and the importance of valuing the present, whatever it may be." However, although we might think that it is a self-help book, it is rather seen as a novel that will make you reflect on how you live the story when reading the protagonist's story.

It is really what the author herself experienced when she went to live in the Maldives in search of inspiration and was left locked up there due to the coronavirus pandemic, without boats, without food or water arriving. How he survived, how he related and how he reflected on his life These are some of the themes addressed in the novel.

The author herself tells us that the main characters, the three women, are based on three Spanish women. We have a grandmother and her two oldest granddaughters.

The first is a single mother and is trying to find a job in a hospital in the middle of the pandemic.

For her part, the little one, and where the story focuses most, introduces us to Federica. She has a creative crisis (the so-called writer's block) and finds herself unable to write her third novel. So she leaves Madrid for the Maldives to try to find that inspiration that she has lost.

And uniting the two is Clotilde, the grandmother who is Federica's best friend and who understands her perfectly.

In the Maldives Islands you will meet several characters, all of them based on real people as the author has said.

We leave you the synopsis of the novel:

«Federica, a young writer in the midst of a creative crisis, decides to escape to the Maldives in search of inspiration.

Before leaving, her grandmother gives her a diary from her own youth, of which Federica had no record, with the idea that she can turn it into her next work of fiction.

However, Maafushi, the kilometer-long island, and circumstances will change everything.

Federica was not aware before leaving of the new world she was going to face and how much she was going to learn trapped in a paradise where ships with water and food will soon stop arriving.

The exoticism that surrounds her, the local people, the children of an orphanage, caring for dolphins and a forbidden love, among other things, will make her rediscover herself and discover that, in her eyes, life always has meaning.

how many pages does it have

One of the questions that is sometimes asked about books has to do with their length. In the case of Between Blues, the novel, in the format in which it has currently been published, It has a total of 320 pages.

That does not mean that, if there is a reissue, or it will be released in another format, the number of pages would not be greater or less than that number.

Now that you know Between the Blues, would you give it a chance to read it? And in case you have already read it, what do you think of it?