Briefly A Delicious Life Nell Stevens by Nell Stevens 9781982190965, 1982190965 instant download after payment.

A playful & daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sand.

In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, & her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks & the townspeople & keeping track of her descendants.

Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, & the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing—a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can’t see her & doesn’t know she exists. As George & Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George’s case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly & reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training).

Charming, original, & emotionally moving — gorgeous & surprising exploration of artistry, desire, & life after death.

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Nell Stevens is the author of Bleaker House & The Victorian & the Romantic, which won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award. She was shortlisted for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award & her writing has been published in The New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta, & elsewhere. Nell is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick. Briefly, A Delicious Life is her first novel.