Guadalupe Nettel

When an albatross strays too far from its home, or loses its bearings, it becomes an accidental, an unmoored wanderer. The protagonists of these eight stories each find the ordinary courses of their lives disrupted by an unexpected event and are pushed into unfamiliar terrain: a girl encounters her uncle in hospital, who was cast out of the family for...

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilised, but as time goes by, Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth—after...