The House of Impossible Loves
(La casa de los amores imposibles)

Clara Laguna is a beautiful girl living her early adolescence in a Castilian town at the beginning of the 20th century. When she falls in love with an Andalusian land-owner, her mother, a sorceress who cast spells on people, discloses a terrible fact to her daughter: the Laguna family lives under a curse, and each women of its stock is condemned to unhappy love forever. This is an enchanting novel about the tricks of desire, the tragedy of love and the unbreakable family bonds.