In this selection of short stories, the Swiss author Dill McLain tries to convey to us, how sometimes in most critical moments, we should never stop struggling, but cling to a ope. Trough her simple, direct and humorous lyrics; when a great love tells us goodbye, when crises and problems of everyday life overwhelm us, when things seem absolutely lost, suddenly life can take a turn, showing us that, maybe around the next corner, a better future or real love might be waiting for us. Tey are fctional stories, inspired by observations and experiences of long journeys in Spain and Portugal. ‘At midnight in Adra’, the short story that gives the title to the book, tells us the story of Amély, a young Frenchwoman traveling with her fancé – to whom she has been engaged for six years – along the Andalusian coast. On the way to Malaga, they are stopped by the police and arrested, after discovering a considerable amount of drugs hidden away in the car. She had no idea of the secret life of her fancé as drug trafcker, and is released by the police, to find herself lost and desperate in an unknown town on the Andalusian coast. That night she sleeps on the beach. On the following day, she is woken up by a small doggie who in some way is responsible for the coming big change in her life. Te author offers us entertaining stories, which invite us to never give up, not to lose faith, and to always trust that tomorrow can undoubtedly be better.
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Born on November 30, 1949, in Zurich, Switzerland; where she lives with her husband Alan Bruce Thompson.
After commercial education and more than forty years of working as assistant in various branches, she began to write short stories in English, which she publishes regularly online on the site www.storystar.com.
The Cuban author Manuel Olivera Gómez regularly translates her short stories into Spanish. A frst selection
of her stories in Spanish appeared in November 2016 with the title A medianoche en Adra (Editorial Circulo Rojo, available on www.amazon.com, also Kindle version, and as ebook on www.agapea.com).
The present work, At midnight in Adra is the English version of that collection.
In October 2015 appeared her frst novel Nieves perpetuas en Almería (Editorial Circulo Rojo, available on www.amazon.com, also Kindle version). She wrote the frst version in Spanish, which was revised in collaboration with the Cuban author Manuel Olivera Gómez. In April 2017 appeared Snowfelds in
Almeria, the English version of that work (Editorial Circulo Rojo, available on www.amazon.com, also
version Kindle).
In December 2017 appeared her frst book for children Sophie in the valley wind and in January 2018
followed the Spanish version Sofía en el viento del valle (Editorial Circulo Rojo, version Kindle available
on www.amazon.com).
She is a passionate traveller, dedicated to culture and art of the world. In addition, she likes music, and daydreaming. With her husband she lives several months per year in a picturesque hamlet on the South Coast of Andalusia, Spain, where both work on their respective projects.