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Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize'Wildly seductive' Sarah Waters - 'Exquisite' New York Times - 'Deeply enjoyable' Daily TelegraphBlanca has been dead for a few centuries when she falls in love - instantly and devotedly - with celebrated novelist George Sand. George is unlike anyone Blanca has encountered in hundreds of years of haunting: a woman dressed in men's clothes, a ferocious writer, a passionate lover of men and women alike and an ambivalent mother. It is 1838, and George has come to the island of Mallorca with her ailing lover, Fr�d�ric Chopin. As the weather and the locals turn against this strange couple, can the love of a teenage ghost keep them from disaster?Briefly, A Delicious Life is a story about breaking convention, and about love - yearning, secret, forbidden, unrequited. 'Dazzling' Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces and Milk Fed`A luscious, multi-sensory bewitchment of a book' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies`A shining work of art' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory'Electrifyingly beautiful, exhilaratingly clever . . . sensual, original, intelligent and brimming with love' Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock`Hugely accomplished' The Guardian`A playful, otherworldly debut' Stylist; 336 pages; 22/06/2023
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Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize'Wildly seductive' Sarah Waters - 'Exquisite' New York Times - 'Deeply enjoyable' Daily TelegraphBlanca has been dead for a few centuries when she falls in love - instantly and devotedly - with celebrated novelist George Sand. George is unlike anyone Blanca has encountered in hundreds of years of haunting: a woman dressed in men's clothes, a ferocious writer, a passionate lover of men and women alike and an ambivalent mother. It is 1838, and George has come to the island of Mallorca with her ailing lover, Fr�d�ric Chopin. As the weather and the locals turn against this strange couple, can the love of a teenage ghost keep them from disaster?Briefly, A Delicious Life is a story about breaking convention, and about love - yearning, secret, forbidden, unrequited. 'Dazzling' Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces and Milk Fed`A luscious, multi-sensory bewitchment of a book' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies`A shining work of art' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory'Electrifyingly beautiful, exhilaratingly clever . . . sensual, original, intelligent and brimming with love' Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock`Hugely accomplished' The Guardian`A playful, otherworldly debut' Stylist; 336 pages; 22/06/2023
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Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize'Wildly seductive' Sarah Waters - 'Exquisite' New York Times - 'Deeply enjoyable' Daily TelegraphBlanca has been dead for a few centuries when she falls in love - instantly and devotedly - with celebrated novelist George Sand. George is unlike anyone Blanca has encountered in hundreds of years of haunting: a woman dressed in men's clothes, a ferocious writer, a passionate lover of men and women alike and an ambivalent mother. It is 1838, and George has come to the island of Mallorca with her ailing lover, Fr�d�ric Chopin. As the weather and the locals turn against this strange couple, can the love of a teenage ghost keep them from disaster?Briefly, A Delicious Life is a story about breaking convention, and about love - yearning, secret, forbidden, unrequited. 'Dazzling' Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces and Milk Fed`A luscious, multi-sensory bewitchment of a book' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies`A shining work of art' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory'Electrifyingly beautiful, exhilaratingly clever . . . sensual, original, intelligent and brimming with love' Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock`Hugely accomplished' The Guardian`A playful, otherworldly debut' Stylist; 336 pages; 22/06/2023
