 In 1939, after the Spanish Civil War, her father was promoted to First Officer and the whole family moved to Cádiz.She studied in a school run by nuns and read a lot.Her father died in 1945 and the family started to have economic problems; she sold her first novel, "Atrevida apuesta", to the publishing house Editorial Bruguera in 1946 for 3,000 pesetas, but they rejected her second novel.