Las flores de Olivia — Silvia Carrasco

Olivia has chosen a gentle life in a small village on Spain’s Costa del Sol, surrounded by the familiar and the natural: gardens, wildflowers, the slow cadence of everyday rhythms. Her boyfriend Víctor, with whom she has shared years since adolescence, has a very different tempo: the city’s bright lights, ambitious business plans, restaurants, travel. In Las flores de Olivia, Silvia Carrasco explores what happens when two people in love drift apart not because they cease to care, but because their dreams change direction. 

As Olivia arranges blooms and watches the seasons shift around her, she begins to question the labels life has assigned: the “good girl” who yields, the ambitious man who never stops. Víctor, meanwhile, faces the tension between what he has built and what he has lost in the process. This novel is about forgiveness — forgiving others, but also forgiving yourself when you realise you’ve grown into someone different. It’s about authenticity: daring to choose your own pace of life, daring to say “this is enough”. And it’s about the landscape: the sea, the sun, the earth underfoot, always present, reflecting the characters’ internal terrain.

If you’re drawn to contemporary romance that refuses easy happy endings, that honours the quiet power of nature and the slow reclamation of one’s self, then Las flores de Olivia invites you to sit with a story of change, hope and the wild beauty of letting go.