There's No Turning Back - Alba de Céspedes Translator: Megan McDowell

Translator: Megan McDowell

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There's No Turning Back - Alba de Céspedes Translator: Megan McDowellThe young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life. Monitored by the nuns who run the college, eight of them form a close group, sharing confidences and hopes for the future. But each, too, has her private secrets a child from an early love affair, frustrated artistic ambitions, burning desires and petty jealousies. With the passing months, their paths begin to diverge, as each woman struggles towards her own idea of freedom. A