by Toti Martínez de Lezea · Maeva Ediciones · tapa dura · ISBN 9788495354662
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«La abadesa María, la excelenta» is the historical novel by Toti Martínez de Lezea, published by Maeva Ediciones in hardback (224 pages, in Spanish).
In 1510, Abbess María Esperanza discovers she is the illegitimate daughter of Ferdinand the Catholic; her mother is not mentioned. Obsessed with finding her, she travels to Bilbao guided by a nursemaid and unravels her origin, her confinement, and her mother's fate, meeting her half-sister Juana and another bastard of the king.
Published in 2002 in the Nueva Historia collection of Maeva Ediciones, the novel is set in Spain in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the era of the Catholic Monarchs and the illegitimate offspring of Ferdinand the Catholic.
Esperanza Martínez de Lezea García is a Spanish writer who writes both in Spanish and Basque. She is a certified translator in French, English and German. She is also a television presenter and actor; she is one of the founders of the Kukubiltxo theatre company.
