Cuaderno inglés

Carlos is a Spaniard living alone in a cramped rented room in Bromley Common, south London, where he works as a carer for old people. One morning an invasion of enormous flies upsets his quiet routine, and he begins to write a diary to make sense of his days: the damp and cold, the precarious work, bargain hunting at the supermarket, the patients who charm him and the ones who rage and threaten. Lucid to the point of cruelty and saved by humour, the notebook becomes a reckoning with what it means to care for others, to endure, and to let oneself be accompanied, as well as a record of small joys such as woods at dusk, libraries and country music.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

192 pages in the original

Genres

Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

United Kingdom

First published

2026 by Clarín/Alfaguara