The success she attained with her early works was consolidated in 1964 when she received the 13th Premio Planeta de Novela literary prize for her novel Las hogueras.

Part of her childhood was spent in Castellón de la Plana, currently in the Valencian Community, within a Republican working-class family.

Due to bombardments by Nationalist forces during the Civil War, the family moved to Lorca, Murcia.

[2] They met while Porcel was working as a typesetter at the Francoist Majorcan newspaper Baleares, owned by Alós's first husband.

It addresses in direct language issues which were common in Spanish literature of the time, such as sex, homosexuality, and prostitution.