Susana Leroy

Inspired by the true story of an Andalusian woman, married to a French sailor who turned out to be a ruthless abuser, this novel recreates the adventures of a couple who sailed around the world for years, aboard a ship that had become a prison for their wife. Faced with misfortune, but preserving her dignity and integrity, Susana Leroy travels with her husband René Hubert on the Pas de deux schooner and tells in first person her family past, the ordeal of living with a violent and irascible man, the extensive voyages throughout the five continents, in all the seas of the planet. Dark characters, noble adventurers and exotic settings appear in a plot full of astonishing adventures, in which the beauty of the sea and the imaginary of navigation contrasts with the intimate drama of the protagonist, who does not give up rebelling against the domination she suffers and Despite everything, he aspires to achieve his freedom, symbolized by the exhausted albatross that manages to take flight. The stories of other writers and navigators resonate in the novel, from the luminous Joseph Conrad of The Mirror of the Sea to the Herman Melville of Moby Dick, as an inverted reference to the way in which monstrosity can be embodied in a human being.