What does this biography encompass about Patras, Athens, Greece, of the '50s, '60s, '70s, that made Manos Hadjidakis say, to a bookseller in the Hir's arcade, in Thessaloniki - how it is the best book he has read in his life? The reader will understand. It does not have one but many parallel miracles. Virtues of high speech. From an uneducated woman. The Woman of Patras, who speaks without shame; without regret. Free and rare speech. (...) "The Woman of Patras" is the most true, that is, naked, story you have read, in the Greek language, since the crucifixion of Christ and the stories of Alexandros Papadiamantis. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]