When they told him that The Sleeping Garden (Univers/Espasa) fit perfectly among the novels of healing fiction (Healing fiction), Carla Gracia Mercadé (Barcelona, ​​1980) didn't know much about what she was being told. "I wrote the book I needed, a refuge I went into when things were bad," the writer explains. Evocative and full of beauty, Gracia's fifth novel is the story of a woman living on autopilot with a latent grief until she goes to the Empordà to awaken a dormant garden. Iris will find in the plants a home and a peace of incalculable value, but to get there she will have to decide who she wants to be.