The acclaimed author also reveals which of her characters she’d like Anne Hathaway to play.

Its the story of a dying dachshund and her owners grief.

I read it when my dog Olivia was mortally ill, so I related to the story profoundly.

Isabel Allende

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I reread it recently, and I cried again.

I am embarrassed to finish books I hate, like extremely violent Scandinavian crime novels.

The history of this period is fascinating, and I would like to see it on the big screen.

It was easy to imagine the characters from those books attending balls and concerts in those immense gilded rooms.