Penguin Random House and Books and Books are inviting to the launch of “Piel de agua” (A Skin of Water), a novel by the Spanish author Estrella Flores-Carretero on December 5 at 6:30 p.m. in Coral Gables, Florida.

Skin of Water narrates the story of a series of women scarred by an intense way of living, feeling, and loving, who paid a heavy price for doing what was outside the purview of their gender during the time in which they lived. In A Skin of Water, her second novel after Days of Salt, Estrella Flores-Carretero continues delving into themes such as friendship, pain, love and heartbreak, and a person's innermost fears, as well as dissecting patterns of behavior repeated from generation to generation, through very moving characters and a family caught in the memory of emotions, a family with "a skin of water".

To see the video trailer for her novel Piel de Agua (A Skin of Water), click here.

Estrella Flores-Carretero

As a graduate in Clinical and Educational Psychology from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, her interest in writing originated when she was a young student. Her first novel Days of Salt was gestated when Estrella decided to apply the sensibility and experience she acquired during her education and her practice as a psychologist, as well as the knowledge she has gained about human behavior when confronted by the love-hate nexus, to literature, and she has continued probing into patterns of behavior in her second novel A Skin of Water.

Estrella Flores-Carretero has been a businesswoman in the field of education for more than 20 years in Spain. Her passion for education has led her to devote part of her professional life to teaching, in the process becoming the owner of 5 private schools in Spain with an average of 1,300 students per school. Apart from being an academic entrepreneur, she has also created a Center of Psychology in Madrid, which has been open for 25 years helping people who suffer from learning disabilities.

Holder of Master Degrees in Transactional Psychology, Business Administration, Personality Disorders, and Learning Disabilities, she has provided training in psychology for professors and administrative teams for various companies and foundations involved in educational fields throughout Europe. Estrella Flores-Carretero is a native of Extremadura and currently resides in Madrid with her husband. She is passionate about writing and teaching philosophy when her time permits her to do so.

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