El Baile de Las Mareas / Dance of the Tides

Una vida truncada por la tragedia.

Un destino caprichoso.

Una voluntad capaz de bailar al son de las mareas.

> En su primera y fascinante novela, Laura Portas, natural de Cambados, recrea los escenarios que la vieron crecer para explorar una época sobre la que se ha documentado a la perfección. Todo lector que entre en esta novela emprenderá un apasionante viaje por las Rías Baixas de hace cien años, una tierra marinera de albariño, pazos, leyenda, pasiones y belleza sin igual.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A life cut short by tragedy.

A fickle fate.

A will capable of dancing to the tides.

Vila de Pazos, early twentieth century. Aurora is a young shellfish farmer about to get married. Her struggle to craft a future for herself takes a turn when she starts working as a maid at a stately pazo, where she not only enters a noble and aristocratic world, but becomes protagonist of a story that revolves around love, mystery, and crossed interests between the most powerful families in the villa. Surrounded by betrayal and shrouded by the enigmatic aura of a Galicia as whimsical as it is mysterious, Aurora must overcome her humble origins to surmount the difficulties that arise and rebuild her life.

In her fascinating first novel, Laura Portas, native of Cambados, recreates the landscapes that watched her grow up to explore an era she researched to perfection. Every reader that enters this novel will begin a passionate journey through the Rías Baixas of a hundred years ago, a seafaring land of albariño, pazos, legend, passion, and unparalleled beauty.