Atria Espanol: El tiempo entre costuras : Una novela (Paperback)

from techeditor

This is a nice story of nice girl, Sira, who grows up poor in Spain before World War II. She's a seamstress there with her mother until, years later, she is swept off her feet by a man who takes her to Morocco only to leave her there high and dry. Now she's alone and in debt, but all is well when...

from Yarrow

I nearly gave up on the book quite near the beginning, but I'm glad I didn't -- it picks up rapidly. Sira spends the first few chapters running away to Morocco with her obviously awful manipulative boyfriend, and the book only really gets good once he leaves her with nothing and she starts having...

from John_Warner

Sira Quiroga began working with a Madrid dressmaker in her atelier as an apprentice when fourteen. Six years later she is finally a dressmaker. When two charismatic men enter her lives, one makes her wealthy and the other, destitute. Never knowing her father, she is finally invited to his office ...

from MHanover10

I found this a very enjoyable read. Yet another element of what happened during World War II that most people didn't know about. I would never have wanted to be a spy back then and I don't think I would have been a good one. If you want to read a very well written story with fascinating character...

from 4leschats

A long historical novel spanning the life of Sira, and young Spanish girl who finds herself swept up in the events of two World Wars. Initially, Sira is a young girl destined to become a seamstress with her mother, but when the war closes the shop where her mother works, Sira's life changes. She ...