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Portrait in Sepia

By Isabel Allende
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If you were thrilled by The House of the Spirits, you'll love this – Marie Claire As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that erased the first five years of her life from her mind. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, she grows... Read More
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Literary legend author Isabel Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance

Literary legend author Isabel Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance

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If you were thrilled by The House of the Spirits, you'll love this – Marie Claire

As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that erased the first five years of her life from her mind. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, she grows up with privilege, comfort and everything she could ask for.

But while she is free of the limitations that most other women face, she is tormented by terrible nightmares. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past, to discover what had such a devastating effect on her young life all those years ago.

Portrait in Sepia is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga, peopled by characters from Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits. This engrossing story of the dark power of hidden secrets is intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.

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ISBN: 9781526693143

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Edition: Unabridged edition

Audience: General / adult

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Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 400

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About the Author

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is a literary living legend and phenomenon. With 77 million books sold, she is the most-read author in the Spanish language throughout the world, and a blockbuster international bestseller of adult novels. A novelist, feminist and philanthropist, Isabel won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Her work has been translated into over 42 languages, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She lives in California.

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