“Lowering Clouds” is a novel about mature women. Gabriele is a sixty-two-year-old bisexual actress when she takes a trip to the city where she spent her adolescence. Her visit awakens something unexpected in two of her friends. Marianne is older and hardly remembers the actress because she has Alzheimer’s disease. Silvia is a housewife that feels the monotony of marriage and she must care for their grandchildren daily. Through her friends, the actress sees the life she could have had, but this trip awakens passions and changes the lives of everyone she visits…
When the novel was published for the first time in Catalan, mature people and young adults, not especially LGBT, involved with these characters too. They understood well how a housewife like Silvia, taking care of the grandchildren, can still feel in love and look for a chance after Gabriele’s visit.
“What Núria Añó gives us in this book is a piece of real life, dissected with the razor-sharp scalpel of her writing. This work contains great use of language and style. The novel is not easy, either its subject or its style, but it is very interesting and, in my opinion, is one of the great promises of contemporary Catalan writing.”
Dr Àngels Santa, L’Ull crític