2025, Grijalbo

Madrid, 1937. At the very moment when a bomb falls on a building in the city center, near Gran Vía, the lives of two young neighbors change forever.

Elvira, whose parents run the boarding house located on the third floor, is exiled from the Civil War in France at the time of the explosion. However, the disappearance of the home she so longs to return to will mark a turning point in her destiny.

Ángela, the daughter of the building’s caretakers, is present when the place where both grew up is blown to pieces. It is then that she makes a decision with unforeseeable consequences: she takes into her arms the baby of some guests who have just perished under the rubble and flees, adopting a false identity.

Neither Elvira nor Ángela could imagine that their paths would cross again, or that another boarding house would become the meeting point for a new generation of women who, like them, will have to learn to transform pain into strength and to survive with the fragile hope of a better future.

The Boarding House is a moving story of mothers and daughters who will endure the setbacks of love, friendship, betrayal, and those secrets that last a lifetime.