Allende follows Paula, the heartbreaking memoir she wrote while her daughter lay in a long coma, with another missive to the young woman, now dead, to update her on the Allende clan's adventures and ...

Isabel Allende hands me a tiny scuffed white shoe. “This was Paula’s shoe when she was a baby.” There are tears in her eyes but she is smiling. Her daughter died more than two decades ago at the age ...

In December 1992 Isabel Allende's only daughter, Paula, died after a year-long coma. During the long hours spent at her bedside Allende wrote her first memoir, which she named after and addressed to ...

Ramona Koval: Isabel Allende was born in Chile but is now well ensconced in San Francisco. She's best known for her novels The House of the Spirits from 1982 and City of the Beasts from 2002, and for ...

Isabel Allende’s latest book is all about her family. As books go, it has everything – drugs, gay marriage, divorce, adoption, death. “It’s like an ongoing melodrama,” she says. “A three-ring circus.” ...

One of the world's most widely read Spanish-language authors, Allende continues to fight for women's rights and write novels with strong female characters. She has written over 25 books, which have ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

One of the world's most widely read Spanish-language authors, Allende continues to fight for women's rights and write novels with strong female characters. She has written over 25 books, which have ...