From writing fiction threads on Twitter to becoming the great promise of historical mystery in Spain
Nagore Suarez
Editorial: Destination
Original publication year: 2025
Since Manuela saw the last painting that Ava painted years ago, the one that reflected an image she had dreamed of –a girl dressed in white suspended in the void, on a cliff above the waves of a rough sea-, your memory is triggered.
Memories take her to 1938, in Florence, where they lived together in a girls’ school. Ava was mysterious and unfathomable and he drew enigmatic beings that he dreamed about… until in a nightmare he had a premonition
A fictional thread in X about the disappearance of a friend of his earned Nagore Suárez his first opportunity in literature.
Graduated in Journalism and with training in Archeology and Forensic Sciences, Nagore Suárez’s first opportunity in the literary world came after going viral on Twitter (now X) a thread with the fictional story of the disappearance of a friend of his, with which he won various awards in The Thread Fair.
Then I would publish the bones trilogya complete success, and now debuts in the Destino publishing house with What lives in dreams, a work in which mysteries, parties and secrets They will guide Manuela in the search for Ava.
A party into the unknown
When her parents die and she feels suffocated by her brother’s tutoring, Manuela Duarte travels to San Sebastian to spend the summer accompanied by Pedrito Ortiz, her best childhood friend and a very well-connected guy in the city. Thanks to that, they receive an invitation to a party at the great mansion. Villa Allurabandoned since its owner went bankrupt and took his life before even opening it.
The house now belongs to a French duke, Julien Leroy-Benoitwhom he does not yet know, who celebrates a housewarming party. An event that is the biggest social event of the summer in the city, which Manuela is not willing to miss. However, she does not know that that party will change your life forever.
The inauguration party of a villa abandoned for years will change Manuela’s life
Villa Allur is so extensive that it seems there are even higher forces. At the party, something leads Manuela out of the dance room and she automatically and bluntly opens a wooden door. There, a small office opens towards her full of books with a painting in the backgroundhanging on the wall. The last painting Ava painted and it hung in the room they both shared in Florence, it was in front of her like a revelation.
That hypnotic drawing, in which it is not known if the woman in white is thrown into the sea or emerges from itdies or is resurrected, takes her to a time when, as a teenager, she was sent to study in Florence, in the late 30s. There he met Ava, an independent girl who has been expelled from several high schools.
Manuela sees in her companion a look full of sparks, like she had never seen in a woman’s eyes. Being the only ones who speak Spanish unites them and soon Manuela witnesses the dark nightmares who accompany Ava at night. After a year together, Ava will disappear overnightas if it had never existed.
Finding Ava
After several sleepless nights, a suicide after the party and the unexpected friendship she establishes with a bookseller from San Sebastián, Manuela’s mind begins to remember Ava and the need to find it becomes an obligation.
Thanks to the help of her friend Pedro, Manuela approaches Ava’s family, who still keeps a box with belongings of the missing girl. A discovery that reassures Manuela since, at times, she had come to think that perhaps Ava had never existed.
Ava’s painting will accompany us throughout the story, an image that becomes a door to the afterlife
What lives in dreams It is more than a novel. Full of mysteries and secrets, Ava’s painting will accompany us throughout the story. An image with a powerful force, which becomes, more than a painting, a a door to the afterlifewhere everything is possible.
Set in Florence in the 1930s and San Sebastian in the 1950sonce we start reading it we just want to know more about what happens in the story and the unknown whereabouts of Ava. Nagore Suárez opens the door to the parties of the highest San Sebastian society of the time and spiritualism sessions in the huge villa. Don’t miss it, the most famous medium in Europe will be there!
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