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Until Valeria began confiding her secret thoughts and feelings to a little black book, she never suspected how dissatisfying she had become with the shabby gentility of her bourgeois life. Suddenly she realized that her individuality was being stifled by the demand of her own high standards of devotion and duty to her husband, her daughters and her son. What goes on behind Valeria’s respectable façade – the conflict between the parents and children, husband and wife, their friends and lovers – is gradually unfolded. An intimate confession that leaves the reader shaken, feeling a sense of recognition of the universality of human relationships.