The Time in Between by María Dueñas6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But before long, she finds herself abandoned, destitute, and broken-hearted in an exotic land. With the Spanish Civil War brewing in Madrid, Sira leaves her mother and her fiancé and follows her lover to Morocco. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly into her neatly planned life: a salesman, and the father she never knew. By her early twenties she has learned the basics of the business and is engaged to a lowly government clerk. Listed in the Textile Arts category, The Time In Between (2009) by debut novelist María Dueñas is the inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her gifts and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.Īt age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. ![]()
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