Four women marked by loss and personal crises converge at La Colombaia, a bookshop-café that becomes their emotional home. There, among books, coffee, and heartfelt conversations, they weave a luminous sisterhood that allows them to heal, reinvent themselves, and learn to fly again. A novel about the healing power of friendship and literature at life’s decisive moments.
A group of women in Barcelona discovers that when life falls apart, the most unexpected refuge can emerge in a bookshop-café like La Colombaia. In this warm space, filled with Mediterranean light, books, and homemade pastries, they learn to support one another, to listen, and to rebuild themselves together.
The protagonists are as diverse as their stories. Lili has returned to Barcelona devastated after the death of her partner and to care for her ailing mother; Gabriela is a chef caught between her children’s crises and her own health problems; Sylvana is a brilliant executive whose personal and professional life collapses at the same time; and Elsa, the owner of La Colombaia, secretly carries a deep grief for her deceased son. Together, their stories intertwine until they form an intimate and powerful circle.
The meetings at the bookshop soon become an organically growing network of emotional support. The Women’s Circle, initiated by Elsa, and the book club become the heart of the story: spaces of listening, everyday humor, and complicity where each woman finds an honest mirror, emotional support, and a place where she can open up without fear. There, they share anxieties and small victories, discovering that they are not alone and that light can also arise from the everyday.
This bond illuminates their lives: Lili finds in Sylvana and Gabi not only friends, but allies in caring for her mother and in her new relationship with David. Gabi receives from the group the support she needs to hold herself together and rebuild her family life. Sylvana finds in the Circle the clarity and energy she needed to recover her sense of purpose. And Elsa begins to heal thanks to the others, who accompany her as she reconciles with her past and opens the door to a less solitary life.
Throughout the book, the protagonists move from being strangers to becoming a chosen family. Between coffees, shared readings, confidences, and moments of humor, they celebrate their small triumphs together and support one another through setbacks. La Colombaia and the Circle become both refuge and point of departure, reminding us that even in the darkest moments, light can emerge.
In the epilogue, their lives have changed, but the Circle remains: proof that together, they have learned to fly even with broken wings.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: Lola Gulias is a fiction editor with experience in the literary world from multiple perspectives (bookseller, agent, editor, and writer).
Learning to Fly with Broken Wings is her debut novel, a choral, emotional, and empathetic story that masterfully combines romance, drama, and humor while addressing highly relevant themes such as mother-daughter relationships, addiction and mental health, and grief, among others.
Narrated in a comforting feel-good tone, the story presents four mature, diverse, and relatable female protagonists, ideal for viewers seeking identification. It has strong audiovisual potential thanks to its episodic structure and well-defined emotional arcs. A fast-paced and moving story.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Feature Film, TV Film.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish.
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