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Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in Peru. She spent her early childhood in Chile, lived in Bolivia and Lebanon as a teenager and young adult. After the military coup in Chile in 1973, she emigrated to Venezuela and has been living as an exile in California since 1987. She calls herself a «eternal foreigner».

She began her literary career in journalism in Chile and Venezuela. In 1982, her epic debut, House of Spirits, became one of the legendary novels of Latin American literature. It was followed by many others, all of which have achieved international success. Her works have been translated into forty languages and sold over seventy million copies: she is the most widely read Spanish-language writer. Allende has received more than sixty international awards, including the Chilean National Literary Prize in 2010, the Danish Hans Christian Andersen Prize in 2012 for her trilogy Memoirs of the Eagle and the Jaguar, and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the United States. In 2018, Isabel Allende became the first Hispanic writer to receive the National Book Award Medal of Honour in the United States for her significant contribution to fiction.

«House of Spirits», «Of Love and Darkness», «Eva Luna», «The Tales of Eva Luna», «The Infinite Plan», «Paula, Aphrodite, Daughter of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia, City of Monsters, My Imaginary Country;, & laquo;Kingdom of the Golden Dragon», & laquo;Zorro», & laquo;Pygmy Forest», & laquo;Ines of my Soul», & laquo;The Sum of Days», & laquo;An Island in the Deep Sea, Maya's Diary, The Ripper Game, The Japanese Lover, There, Beyond Winter, Long Petal of the Sea.

Isabel Allende plunges into memories and offers us a touching book about her attitude to feminism and the fact that she is a woman. «Every year I have lived and every wrinkle tells my story,» the great Chilean writer invites us to accompany her on an exciting journey in which she revises her life's work. She talks about the women who are very important in her life: her relatives Panchita, Paula, and her flight agent Carmen Balcells, for whom she longs; outstanding writers, rebels in art, including Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, and Eve Ensler; and nameless women who have experienced violence, but who, full of dignity and courage, get up and move forward. All those who have consistently accompanied her through life and inspire her: the women of her soul. She reflects on the #MeToo movement, the recent social unrest in her home country, and the alarming situation we all live in with the pandemic. And all of this without losing her characteristic passion for life and insisting that no matter what age you are, there is always time for love. No matter what, adulthood should be lived, felt and enjoyed to the fullest.