Briefly, A Delicious Life

Beschreibung

Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize<BR><BR>'Wildly seductive' - Sarah Waters<BR>'Exquisite' - New York Times<BR>'Deeply enjoyable' - Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens is a historical otherworldly story about breaking convention, and about love - secret, forbidden, unrequited.<BR><BR>Blanca 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.<BR><BR>It is 1838, and George has come to the island of Mallorca with her ailing lover, Frédéric Chopin. As the weather and the locals turn against this strange couple, can the love of a teenage ghost keep them from disaster?<BR><BR>'Dazzling' - Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces and Milk Fed<BR><BR>'A luscious, multi-sensory bewitchment of a book' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies<BR><BR>'A shining work of art' - Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory<BR><BR>'Electrifyingly beautiful, exhilaratingly clever . . . sensual, original, intelligent and brimming with love' - Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock<BR><BR>'Hugely accomplished' - The Guardian<BR><BR>'A playful, otherworldly debut' - Stylist

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