Publisher's Synopsis
It runs 1562 and Teresa de Jesus, at forty-seven, is housed in the Luisa de la Cerda palace in Toledo. She comforts her hostess from the melancholy caused by her husband's death, waits for the foundation of her new convent to prosper and dedicates herself to writing a text destined to become a decisive work in the birth of the autobiographical genre, The Book of Life, which must please its ecclesiastical superiors and defend it against its detractors.
