María Dueñas reminds us how it feels to be swept away by a masterful storyteller. As the preeminent couturier for an eager clientele of Nazi officers' wives, Sira becomes embroiled in the half-lit world of espionage and political conspiracy rife with love, intrigue, and betrayal.Īlready a runaway bestseller across Europe, The Time In Between is one of those rare, richly textured novels that enthrall down to the last page. Among the odd collection of European expatriates trapped there by the worsening political situation back on the Continent, Sira reinvents herself by turning to the one skill that can save her: her gift for creating beautiful clothes.Īs England, Germany, and the other great powers launch into the dire conflict of World War II, Sira is persuaded to return to Madrid, where she takes on a new identity to embark upon the most dangerous undertaking of her career. However, she soon finds herself abandoned, penniless, and heartbroken in an exotic land. With the Spanish Civil War brewing in Madrid, Sira leaves her mother and her fiancé, impetuously following her handsome lover to Morocco. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship.
The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.Īt age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress.
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