The Sum Of Our Days

Description

Isabel Allende describes in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply

personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25

years. The first page picks up from where Paula ends — her daughter never

did wake up from her coma and died in 1992 — when Allende recounts

spreading Paula''s ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home.

It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter

but has managed to survive by keeping her husband, son, grandchildren as

well as close friends — kindred spirits — central to her life.The book is

particularly illuminating and revealing about her working life — she must

begin every new book she writes on January 8th or else abandon it for a

year.''The Sum of the Days'', based on Allende''s own journals and daily

correspondence with her mother in Chile, reveals the author to be a

dazzling, generous, warm and hysterically funny matriarch within her swirl

of family and friends.