A smart and funny portrait of a generation—are you where you thought you’d be by 40?
Lluís is a photojournalist and has been travelling around the world for half his life. After living in Asia for five years, he has decided to return to Barcelona. His father is in hospital and he shares a room with Laia’s father.
Laia works in an advertising agency, but she doesn’t really like it there, she lives at her father’s house and feels a bit lost.
Marc is a pianist and lives in New York. For the first time since the birth of his son, he embarks on an international tour that begins in Barcelona, where he grew up. When he gets there to stay for a few weeks, he goes on Tinder, where he meets Íngrid, who is a photographer and is determined to become a single mother.
Through the life of a charismatic set of characters, Andrea paints a vivid, relatable picture of this generation’s struggles, as a down-to-earth spin-off of Sex In The City set in Barcelona. With her signature humor and a deeply personal touch, this novel offers a gripping look at love, identity, and the contradictions of modern life, speaking directly about the messy, complicated reality of being 40 today.