About the book: 2024 / In the family of Frasquita Carasco, since time immemorial, a mysterious box has been passed from mother to daughter, and each finds in it her own special unique gift. Frasquita found threads and needles there, her gift is sewing. She not only turns old rags into the most beautiful wedding dress, but can also reconnect a person with the shadow that has left him, revive him by sewing together a fighting rooster torn to shreds. And each of the five daughters will someday receive a strange, beautiful, frightening gift that will become both happiness and grief for her. It is not surprising that in the village Frasquita is considered a witch and is shunned, afraid of her and yet drawn to her. But one day Frasquita and her children will have to leave their native village to go wandering around Spain, and then beyond its borders, bringing miracles and curses to the world. “The Stitched Heart” is a captivatingly beautiful, bright, inventive fairy tale, into which you are immersed from the very first lines , and it will be impossible to emerge from it. The novel by Carole Martinez is the same magical realism that stitches fantasy and reality firmly and seamlessly.