"It was a shot in the dark." As he says this through the speakerphone, you can sense the tone, even now, of astonishment; and a half-laugh from someone who doesn't know how it all happened. It's like a sigh that seems to express "Who would have ever told us!" The shot in question was giving him a notebook: Laura's Tales, when she was seven years old. "It was a way to stimulate a hobby, we didn't know where it would go," says Francesc Gost, who gave the notebook to his daughter, Laura Gost. Of course, it stimulated her: at 31, she has written three novels –The big cousin, The world becomes simple and The ashes in the pool– and some plays. Since that gift, she's been writing stories and tales, and for a few months now, Laura has been telling them to her first child. By the way: when he was born, a friend of Francisco's said Laura Gost was the name of a screenwriter. He wasn't wrong.