The war godmother

Following his successful debut with Life in a Minute, in this moving novel José Antonio Lucero reveals to us the valuable figure of war godmothers and their forgotten role in the Civil War.

Can a love letter change a life or stop a war?

Would you wait for those words until the end of your days?

Madrid, 1936. Aurora has just come of age and works as a nurse in a tumultuous city that resists the fire and bombs of war. In this climate of violence, she decides to contribute to hope on the Republican front and begins to correspond with a young soldier, Teófilo, thus becoming - like many other women of the time - a war godmother.

In each letter, the young people will find a refuge where they can express the fears and secrets they cannot say aloud while discovering a love they never imagined. However, in a war full of intrigues and espionage, in which everyone is suspicious, the written word can be the most dangerous weapon...

When years later, isolated in the silence of the post-war period, Teófilo finds out that Aurora is still alive, he does not hesitate to try to recover the person who, between fire and gunpowder, made love, calm, and peace flourish in him.

This story is a tribute to all those women who took words as a rifle and managed to make strength and hope grow in the line of fire for the soldiers.