Valuri

Cristina and Lucia seem to have just one thing in common. Their daughters are friends. Cristina runs her business from a cabin far off in the mountains. Lucia works at a bank and lives in central Brașov. Both feel the strain of raising children while their husbands are absent. Business woes and addiction also shape their lives. Then someone finds a diary in an attic. It reveals painful ties between the two women.

Valuri is Arina Delcea’s first novel. It looks at how past choices shape life now. This work of modern fiction links family life with buried secrets. Most of the story takes place in the mountains. Yet the sea is a theme that returns throughout the book.

Delcea wrote the novel during a year away from work. Her author biography gives her age as 28. She studied journalism at the University of Bucharest. She then earned a master’s degree in political journalism. At Digi24, she worked as a political reporter and presenter. Her biography says she next worked at Realitatea Plus. It also sets out her plans to sail around the world. She plans to go with her husband and dog. She hopes to film and write about that journey.