When Portugal Calls (Quinta da Saudade)
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When Portugal Calls (Quinta da Saudade)
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$18.99
Regular price $22.99
When Portugal Calls
Some opportunities only knock once. Some places change you forever.
Elena Carvalho has built a perfectly sensible life in a seaside Kent town - reliable clients, familiar routines, her own apartment with a sea view - and Martin, her long-term partner who loves her in his particular way. At forty-five, she tells herself that ‘fine’ is enough. Then an email arrives offering her a three-month translation contract in Lisbon, the city where she was born. The pay is extraordinary. The timing is terrible. She says yes anyway.
From the moment she steps off the plane, Lisbon begins to do something to Elena. The light is different here. So is she. As she immerses herself in a breathtaking restoration project in the historic Bairro Alto, she finds herself drawn into a world she never knew she was missing - and closer to her Portuguese roots than she ever expected.
Then comes the letter. Her late grandmother has left her a crumbling, beautiful farmhouse called Quinta da Saudade in the Torres Vedras wine country. And a landscape architect called Tomás, who listens like no one ever has, is asking questions Elena isn't sure she's ready to answer.
When Portugal Calls is a warm, uplifting novel about reinvention, longing and belonging, and the courage it takes to claim the life you were always meant to live.
If you enjoy sun-drenched European settings, midlife reinvention and slow-burn romance, you'll love When Portugal Calls.
Perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell, Joanna Trollope and Santa Montefiore, and readers who love: women's fiction, Portugal and Lisbon travel, midlife romance, expatriate life, heritage restoration, family inheritance, and stories about women finding themselves.
Some opportunities only knock once. Some places change you forever.
Elena Carvalho has built a perfectly sensible life in a seaside Kent town - reliable clients, familiar routines, her own apartment with a sea view - and Martin, her long-term partner who loves her in his particular way. At forty-five, she tells herself that ‘fine’ is enough. Then an email arrives offering her a three-month translation contract in Lisbon, the city where she was born. The pay is extraordinary. The timing is terrible. She says yes anyway.
From the moment she steps off the plane, Lisbon begins to do something to Elena. The light is different here. So is she. As she immerses herself in a breathtaking restoration project in the historic Bairro Alto, she finds herself drawn into a world she never knew she was missing - and closer to her Portuguese roots than she ever expected.
Then comes the letter. Her late grandmother has left her a crumbling, beautiful farmhouse called Quinta da Saudade in the Torres Vedras wine country. And a landscape architect called Tomás, who listens like no one ever has, is asking questions Elena isn't sure she's ready to answer.
When Portugal Calls is a warm, uplifting novel about reinvention, longing and belonging, and the courage it takes to claim the life you were always meant to live.
If you enjoy sun-drenched European settings, midlife reinvention and slow-burn romance, you'll love When Portugal Calls.
Perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell, Joanna Trollope and Santa Montefiore, and readers who love: women's fiction, Portugal and Lisbon travel, midlife romance, expatriate life, heritage restoration, family inheritance, and stories about women finding themselves.