by Aurora García Mateache · La Esfera · tapa dura · ISBN 9788490604205
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«La Favorita» is the historical novel by Aurora García Mateache, published by La Esfera in hardback (392 pages, in Spanish).
Elena Sanz, raised in a hospice in Leganés, dreams of singing at the Teatro Real and ends up triumphing on the stages of half of Europe. Her fate changes when Alfonso XII falls in love with her: the contralto is caught between the king's passion, jealousy and high politics. The scandal of her illegitimate children marks her story, which the novel rescues from oblivion.
First historical novel by Aurora García Mateache, born in Madrid in 1982 and royal correspondent for the newspaper La Razón.
For readers of historical fiction and romances based on real characters from 19th-century Spain.
