“When they came in to get me, I was asleep. I thought something had happened. I said: ‘Already? Surely not.’ I hadn’t finished my book.”
Beatriz Flamini went 70 metres underground outside Granada on Nov. 20, 2021 and stayed 500 days with no outside contact. She got through 60 books and 1,000 litres of water and never touched the panic button. The worst moment was an invasion of flies. She missed a war, a cost of living crisis and a royal funeral, and still did not want to come out.