San Francisco 1866. Molly Walsh is an Irish nun seduced and abandoned by a Chilean aristocrat
before her daughter Emilia del Valle Walsh is born. Raised by her mother and stepfather in the
heart of a humble Mexican neighborhood Emilia grows into a bright and independent young woman
challenging social norms in the pursuit of writing her first love and passion. At just
sixteen Emilia is writing successful adventure novels under the pseudonym Brandon J. Price and
before long she secures a position as a columnist at the San Francisco Examiner travelling for
the first time to New York City where a new love - passionate but short-lived - changes
everything. She returns to San Francisco heartbroken but with a newfound determination to
survive in her own name. Santiago 1891. Emilia finds herself in a nation on the brink of an
abyss. While covering news of the civil war unfolding in Chile she goes she goes in search of
another story - of the del Valle family whose legacy is her birth right and what became of the
father who abandoned them. Enduring violence on the battlefield in hospital and in prison
Emilia's own journey becomes one of loves lost and found leading her into the heart of the
homeland she never knew. Another masterclass in historical storytelling from Isabel Allende
My Name is Emilia del Valle is a powerful tale of love and war discovery and redemption told
by a valiant young woman who confronts monumental challenges survives and reinvents herself
along the way.
