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Exploring the events of her life and those of the country in which she lived until Pinochet's military coup, Isabel Allende takes us on a highly personal tour through her homeland, bringing it to life: a place of love charms and ghosts; of grandparents and great-grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends with whom readers of Allende's fiction will feel immediately at home. Rebellious and passionate, a feminist long before she knew what feminism was, her love for (and sometimes exasperation with) Chile informs every line.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Isabel Allende was born in 1942, the niece of Salvador Allende, who went on to become famous as the elected President of Chile deposed in a CIA-backed coup. She worked as a journalist, playwright and children's writer in Chile until 1974 and then in Venezuela until 1984. Her first novel for adults,The House of the Spirits, was published in Spanish in 1982, beginning life as a letter to her dying grandfather. It was an international sensation, and ever since all her books have been acclaimed and adored in numerous translations worldwide.
REVIEWS:

'A wise and powerful book'- Marie Claire
'A magical memoir from a wonderful writer ... a lovely book'- Scotsman
'Always charming and entertaining ... Her observations about how her exile from Chile has come to form her and influence her writing are interesting and sensitively expressed' - New York Times
'Allende is incapable of telling a bad story. She writes of her own experience with a kind of wild candour' -Independent
'Honest, funny, loveable and engaging'- Herald

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