Anything and Everything

Planeta, Spain, 2013, 195 pages
Original title: Faré tot el que tú vulguis
Genre: fiction
Spanish and Catalan text available

 

Nora, a married woman in her forties with a secret, meets Nacho, a young biologist, on an airplane, and is unfaithful to her husband for the first time. This meeting gives rise to a game of dependency and passion that Nora draws on to create the pictures for her forthcoming exhibition.

“There is nothing more deceptive than infatuation. Even more  when it’s someone who falls in love for the first time at forty. ”

 

Anything and Everything is the journey of the awakening of a woman emotionally trapped by a conventional marriage to love, sensuality and sexuality. It’s a novel where the protagonist learns to do what she wants and not what others want: the transformation from “I will do whatever you want” to “I will do everything that I want.”