Can a choice as simple as a name change our lives? That's the question British writer Florence Knapp poses in her literary debut: The names (Ediciones 62/Salamandra), translated into Catalan by Núria Parés Sellarès. The novel, already translated into 25 languages, tells the story of a mother, a victim of her husband's violence, who goes to the civil registry and hesitates about what to name her second son. From there, it presents three different lives depending on the chosen name.