Every morning Miguel, the postman of a small village, passes by Ricarda’s window. She has been waiting for a letter for years, but when it finally arrives it is too late. Luis, her son, is left with the image of a melancholic mother forever wa...

Every morning Miguel, the postman of a small village, passes by Ricarda’s window. She has been waiting for a letter for years, but when it finally arrives it is too late. Luis, her son, is left with the image of a melancholic mother forever waiting for news, and starts working in the department of ‘dead letters’, the place where the missives that could never reach their destination are put. This is where he finds the lost letters of Paula, to which he is mysteriously and inexplicably attracted. Cartas que siempre esperé is a captivating and beautiful novel whose characters are trying to resolve the enigmas of their lives so as to be able to leave the past behind and fi nally start to live in the present.