On a romantic peninsula, more like an island, lives a family that at first seems flawless - the young heroine, her younger sister and brother, mother and aunt. The girl imagines that they are some kind of higher beings, surrounded by a ghostly aura of their exclusivity, and they are allowed to despise everyone who is not like them. But one day the beautiful and prosperous life in the house collapses - the father who disappeared years ago appears, like a jack-in-the-box, and A long-standing family secret is suddenly revealed. The matured heroine will have to go through more than one trial before she is able to leave her “ideal” world forever - cold and hypocritical. For the book “The Island of Women” Alvaro Pombo was awarded the National Prose Prize and the Barcelona City Prize.