In 2009 she was awarded the Prémio Agustina Bessa-Luís for the novel "A Casa-Comboio".,[1] the story of an indo-Portuguese family from Damão and the untold history of Portuguese India, which was also translated and published in Italian.
In 2011, her fourth book was published, A Infanta Rebelde, a biography of Princess D. Maria Adelaide de Bragança, who was awarded the Order of Merit by the President of the Republic.
Her second novel, Sem Fim à Vista - a viagem, published in September 2012, is the story of a patient with serious heart problems travelling through Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macau, Sri Lanka.
https://www.wook.pt/livro/mar-humano-raquel-ochoa/15767467 July 2015 saw, the publication of As Noivas do Sultão, a historical novel based on a series of true events from 1793 when, caught by a storm in the Atlantic, the ship carrying the family and harem of the Sultan Mohamed III of Morocco arrived in Lisbon.
At age 33 she went halfway around the world, visiting Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Macau, India, Sri Lanka, Morocco and 2013 travelled across South East Asia.