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‘This is a magical and special place, full of harmony and beauty. It’s like its own little world’
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‘My mother bought the house after my father’s death. It became her special place in the world — it defined her’
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It comes as no surprise to learn that Susana Aldecoa’s home once belonged to her mother, the celebrated novelist Josefina Aldecoa. Las Magnolias is a writer’s paradise, a place that itself seems conjured from the imagination.
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