3 best books by Sonsoles Ónega

The discovery of the literary vein in journalists is undoubtedly an extension of the essential use of language to communicate and transmit what is happening. And reality always serves to introduce the best hyperbole in any self-respecting novel. The fact that the popular pull already serves the cause of certain literary "cookings" that end up in awards like Planet 2023…, since it is already something that is too evident when people in the social limelight have recently won in order to ensure the investment in the prize itself. Just my suspicions, don't pay much attention to me.

On the other hand, Onega is no exception and recent authors from journalism can be found everywhere, from Carmen Chaparro but also Carlos of Love o Theresa Old, to name a few. Among them, of course, a Sonsoles Ónega that begins to give continuity to a literary career closely followed by growing readers.

In Sonsoles Ónega we find a taste for the mixture between the most lyrical background of love and heartbreak stories and the historical or contemporary chronicle, the staging of the lived moments that accompany each intrahistory made human essence, after all.

Top 3 recommended novels by Sonsoles Ónega

After Love

Love in times of war. The paradox is reproduced in this story brought from the Spanish reality. 1933 was a turbulent year in which the coming Civil War was already anticipated. The figure of the woman was still far from acquiring its relevance as a free person, beyond the designs set by parents, husbands, the church or any other person or institution that officially superseded the female will.

Carmen Trilla was one of those women trapped by her concerted destiny. An unreal love in an unhappy home. But her will for true love, appearing in another man, ends up pushing her towards rebellion and resistance at all costs. Clandestine love has its lights and its shadows. The intensity of the furtive is preceded by the wall of stubborn reality, whose passing in the coming years of wars and exiles, whose ideological and moral circumstances moved everything in another direction. Carmen had to fight to undo that suffocating unreal space that hung over her.

Federico is that lover also stubborn in the fruition of forbidden love. Between the two of them they try to escape the enveloping spider web that the conventions and the disaster of war spun around their lives. An unforgettable secret love story that went through a war and overcame all social barriers. Some children who could witness the struggle of this woman to find her place where there was still no room for women.

After Love

A thousand kisses forbidden

Sometimes coincidences become accomplices of wishes. Costanza and Mauro had been waiting for half their lives until an unforeseen meeting on Madrid's Gran Vía brought their destinies together again.

Costanza, recently separated from her husband, a lawyer in a prestigious law firm, had in her hands the defense of an important banker, a circumstance that absorbed her every hour of the day. Mauro, Father Mauro, had just returned from Rome to undertake a job commissioned by the Archbishopric of Madrid. Despite his circumstances and with all the headwinds, he resurrects the love story that Costanza and Mauro lived twenty years ago. Now they must decide between letting themselves be carried away by their feelings or resigning themselves to their contradictions.

A thousand kisses forbidden

The maid's daughters

Now that we are giving away prizes for the good of the business, we could at least present ourselves as a winner, due to the good prestige of the final brand. PLANET AWARD 2023, a story with more grounds in the strictly literary. Because the title, the cover and finally the plot sound like stories already lived in the hands of María Dueñas, Anne Jacobs and other cultivators of romantic dramas revisited one or two centuries later.

But of course, these types of stories worked so well in the reading segment that buys books the most... The bucolic, the romantic, the success, the resilience, the costumbrista point, some war fragments, the family followed in their sagas. Pretty hackneyed things.

One night in February 1900, just at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, in the country house of Espíritu Santo, two girls, Clara and Catalina, came into the world, whose destinies had already been written. However, an unexpected revenge will forever shake their lives and those of all the Valdés.

Doña Inés, matriarch of the saga and faithful wife of Don Gustavo, must survive heartbreak, the pain of abandonment and power struggles until she turns her true daughter into the heir of an entire empire, in a time when women They were not allowed to be masters of their lives.  

The maid's daughters

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We who wanted it all

There comes a time when Beatriz, faced with the dilemma of her life (a choice that by custom in the male skin can be faced with greater detachment and freedom), considers that if she had a new daughter, she would want her to hit the mark with an opulent husband so she doesn't have to face her dilemmas.

To that extreme of abhorrence it can mean for a woman to approach the poetic planet of conciliation and its prosaic reality. Beatriz, Purchasing Director at a multinational lingerie company, receives an irresistible and promising professional offer. If she weren't married with two children, she would have answered immediately, but the promotion means settling in Hong Kong.

Beatriz lives exhausted, struggling between working at what she likes and enjoying the family life she wants. Since her husband, responsible for the chain of dental clinics that he inherited from his father, will not be willing to follow her to Hong Kong, Beatriz begins an investigation into the reconciliation of personal and work life as a means to be able to make a decision. Why choose A or B? There is a plan C!

We who wanted it all
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