My Name is Emilia del Valle

<p>''A spellbinding masterpiece'' <b>SANTA MONTEFIORE</b><br><br>''Isabel Allende is a literary treasure'' <b>KRISTIN HANNAH</b><br><br><b>Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things.</b><br><br>Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. <b>She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life’s passion for writing</b>, even if it means publishing under a man’s name.<br><br>When Emilia lands a position as a journalist for the <i>Daily Examiner</i>, her <b>unwavering sense of adventure – and new-found determination to survive in her own name </b>– leads her to seize the chance to cover a brewing civil war in Chile alongside another talented reporter.<br><br>But the assignment offers Emilia more than just an opportunity to prove herself as a writer. Before long she <b>embarks on a treacherous, life-changing journey </b>in a homeland she never knew, to uncover the truth about her father – and herself.<br><br>A masterclass in historical storytelling from Isabel Allende, <i>My Name is Emilia del Valle </i>is <b>a powerful tale of love and war</b>, told by a valiant young woman who confronts monumental challenges, survives and reinvents herself along the way.</p>