It was after a conversation with her eldest son that Ester Invernon (Mataró, 1973) decided to put all her eggs in the literature basket. "He had arrived home angry with the world, totally pre-teen, and I told him: 'Many days I don't like what I do and I put up with it,'" explains Invernon. That night she couldn't stop thinking about the phrase and, the next morning, while having breakfast, she announced to her family that she had decided to change her life. "I told them that in a year I would publish a book and I got to work on it," she recalls. Thus began the career of a writer who has already brought five novels to life – including Un estiu per estimar (La Campana, 2021) and Ningú ens va dir que seria fàcil (La Campana, 2023) – and has sold over 20,000 books. Her latest story, titled Després de tu, has now arrived in bookstores, and is disconnected from the Trilogia dels Albons which has established Invernon as a successful author in Catalan.

Marina believes that you can't love one child more than another, but that you relate to them in very different ways, because they are different people. She also believes that a mother can't save her children; that she must observe them and accompany them if they ask, without judging them. She's also convinced that, for her children, she would be capable of anything: killing, stealing, prostituting herself, and dying. She's a woman who, like me, when she became a mother, let her beast out; her mammalian nature flowed more than her human nature. She let herself be guided by what she felt she had to do rather than by how she should do it or what she was told to do.