Honourable Women

Honourable Women, Miguel de Carrión’s second novel, is a soul searching portrait of its protagonist, Victoria, who reflects on the concept of honour, as stipulated by the bourgeois morality of her times. Similar to the majority of his stories, love and sex—this time contrasted in the convenience of marriage and an excessive sense of shame—lie at the heart of the plot, and are the main reasons for honourable and licentious women blurring their labels.