Journalist Myriam Ybot debuts with her first literary work 'Eliza', a novel about the odyssey of a young Londoner towards freedom and discovery through travels in the Canary Islands.
Eliza Drake, a wealthy and restless young Londoner, decides to embark to the Canary Islands fleeing the conventions of her position and to realize the stories she has read since childhood about the expeditions of writers and artists around the world. She would never have imagined that the Tenerife of the five o'clock tea, the export of vegetables and the eternal spring would open the doors to a transformative experience that will change her life forever. With a prose that recalls the style of the Brontë sisters or Jane Austen, Eliza is a novel that pays homage to foreign travelers through our country and the importance of their literary gaze and courage, rarely recognized.
The beach stretched out before her eyes in all its length, limited by the bite of the tide on the shore and by the imposing cliff of vertical walls and sharp edges. Its stone face appeared full of paths and cracks, impertinent as wrinkles. Or as she thought to write in her diary, "furrowed like the frown of a colossus."
"You have been looking for a good novel for a while and Myriam Ybot has written it. With a delicacy and a remarkable descriptive load, she relates two social and cultural worlds, making Eliza Drake the path and the reason that guarantees the establishment of a harmonious relationship."
The writer, Myriam Ybot, was born in Madrid in 1965, although she has resided in Lanzarote since 1994. She has a degree in Modern and Contemporary History (UAM), in Information Sciences (UCM). She develops her professional career as a journalist in media, mainly written, in the insular, regional and national spheres, in press offices and as a volunteer in non-governmental organizations. In addition, she has published short stories and short stories in magazines and a compilation of traditional recipes from Lanzarote.