Nothing better than the allegory and its symbols to take perspective on the things that happen to us, on our daily problems and our ways of facing them.
And nothing better than fantasy to compose those wonderful stories that entertain as well as guide and offer alternatives in our moments of confusion.
That's what this novel Hope is about. Whose title is also accompanied by that typical tagline that already anticipates what the plot will be about: The story of a girl who could not hear the words.
At the outset we can already assume what it entails not being able to hear the words: Incommunication. Blindness. Noise.
And then we started reading. And we begin to walk without losing detail through an old street, each description sets the scene and at the same time leads to the first symbols of our walk in search of something.
We find the Serendipity theater, which, as its name suggests, invites us to enter it without knowing that we were looking for it, but intuiting that it is there where we can find something unique, something different from what we were looking for that becomes a new great discovery.
Because little Matilda, despite being almost a little woman, soon seems like a replica of the little prince of Saint Exupery. One of those childish characters that in their naivety gather wisdom for anyone who has already lost the path of childhood as a solution to the gray of the world.
Along with Matilda we find Joseph, with his adult man's tribulations or some Matilda's accomplice doll.
Because Matilda needs to find someone to share her secrets and fears with. And it is in a state of confusion and fear that we can recognize a piece of ourselves in Matilda.
And from that empathy the final teaching of the book is born, I instruct them to get ahead, the way to make words serve again to communicate and be happy, or at least try ...
You can now buy the novel Hope, the new book by Wendy Davies, here: