The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

By: Martha Batalha

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard

Euridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While Antenor is busy congratulating himself on his excellent catch, Euridice spends her spends her humdrum days ironing his shirts and removing the lumps of onion from his food, dreaming of the success she could have made of herself - as a writer, dressmaker or culinary whiz - in another life.

Her free-spirited sister Guida, on the other hand, is the kind of person who was ‘born knowing everything’. When she returns from her failed elopement with stories of heartbreak and loss, the lives of Euridice and her husband are thrown into confusion, with disastrous consequences. Translated by Eric M. B. Becker.

©2016 Martha Batalha (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd

Great Narrator!

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. Even though there are several different characters and time lines that intersect throughout, their stories are all interesting. Through the lens of their different lives, we see the very limited choices women had in a time not so very long ago. Narration was really good. I would recommend this book.

Probably about someone you know

a story that make us think of all the invisible women that lived before us.