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Celia is a seven-year-old girl, belonging to a family of the Madrid bourgeoisie in the early years of the Republic. She is convinced that her mother is really a fairy, and that nothing can happen to her. As for her father, she thinks he…
Celia's father has a brother, Rodrigo, a bachelor and a former officer in the African army, who, upon retiring, returns to Madrid with Maimón, a young Moorish, as an assistant. Celia and Maimón fit together admirably, and between the two…
Summer arrives, Celia's hair is cut, so she feels obliged to do the same with her dolls and her cat, Pirracas. This leads some of the servants to believe that an evil form has taken over their lives. At the house of a new friend,…
The iron discipline of the nuns is a tremendous shock for Celia, but in reality the change does not affect her as much as one might expect: with the girls at school, Celia does not quite get along and instead, she makes friends with two…
The decision to be a saint (or at least a martyr) takes Celia to crazy extremes, against which Don Restituto, the priest, fights. End of year exams are a disaster. One of the nuns devises a trick so that the mother superior asks, in the…
Doña Merlucines arrives at the school, a sour and gossipy old woman who soon makes life miserable for Celia. The war between the two records many battles, of different tone and magnitude. Celia has to take refuge in her hiding place in…
