TY - BOOK AU - Duenas,Maria AU - Kerrigan,Elie TI - The heart has its reasons SN - 9781742614021 AV - PQ6704.U35 M5713 2014 U1 - 863.7 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Sydney PB - Macmillan KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - College teachers KW - Fiction KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Literature KW - Research KW - Life change events KW - Married women KW - Runaway husbands KW - Authors, Spanish KW - California KW - Barcelona (Spain) N2 - "A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions"--Amazon.com ER -