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LES CALCES AL SOL

Regina Rodríguez Sirvent

For readers of Jojo Moyes, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Elisabet Benavent.
One day Rita Racons finds herself at Barcelona airport ready to board a plane to New York, where she is supposed to take English lessons, experience the city and find her place in the world. However, she will end up working as an au-pair in Atlanta and taking care of the Bookland family's three children with high capacities for a whole year.

The Booklands are the antithesis of the classic American family cliché. Intelligent, well-educated, and deeply brainy, they hope that the new au-pair will be up to the standards demanded by the privileged minds of their children. She won't be, and yet, Rita and her constant chaos will lead the kids to experience life beyond books.

During her time in Atlanta, Rita will miss her family, dare to do everything, expand her mind until, suddenly, one day, she will find what she has been looking for: her true vocation.

Regina Rodriguez Sirvent (Puigcerdà, 1983) is a psychology graduate and currently runs a small business offering private gastronomic tours in Barcelona. As a writer, she contributes to various media outlets such as newspapers and satirical programmes, both as a scriptwriter and presenter. On the international stage, she has published articles in the journal of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the American Spanish-language publication Mundo Hispánico. In 2022, she published her debut novel, Les calces al sol (PRH, 2022) which has become a sensation on the Catalan literary market.
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Published 2022-09-08 by La Campana/PRH

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Illa dels Llibres Award

#1 for 37 weeks straight! Absolute Catalan & Spanish bestseller with more than 40.000 copies sold.

Les calces al sol has been a kind of tsunami in the Catalan literary landscape. There are not many books that make you laugh this much, that leave you wanting for more - This is a very crazy, very funny, very human story.

Film rights sold to MediaPro US for a feature film steadily producing Woody Allen's films for 14 years now with offices in NY & former Film Programming Vice President Leslie Cohen attached as Head of Global Acquisitions & Content Director. MediaPro has produced more than 50 films to public and critical acclaim. Its productions have participated in the main international festivals and have been recognised with the most important awards

It's so rare for a debut to be written with such good craft, with scenes and dialogues so hilarious and on point, so well thought out and carried out. The protagonist feels like flesh and bone and the array of secondary characters is memorable. The action unfolds at high speed, mixing smiles and tears, just like life itself!

LES CALCES AL SOL has made it into National Catalan TV on primetime

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A novel to regain faith in humanity