Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize'Wildly seductive' &ndash Sarah Waters'Exquisite' &ndash New York Times'Deeply enjoyable' &ndash Daily TelegraphBriefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens is a historical otherworldly story about breaking convention, and about love &ndash secret, forbidden, unrequited.Blanca has been dead for a few centuries when she falls in love &ndash instantly and devotedly &ndash with celebrated novelist George Sand. George is unlike anyone Blanca has encountered in hundreds of years of haunting a woman dressed in men&rsquos 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, Frédéric Chopin. As the weather and the locals turn against this strange couple, can the love of a teenage ghost keep them from disaster?'Dazzling' &ndash Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces and Milk Fed&lsquoA luscious, multisensory bewitchment of a book&rsquo &ndash Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies&lsquoA shining work of art&rsquo &ndash Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory'Electrifyingly beautiful, exhilaratingly clever . . . sensual, original, intelligent and brimming with love' &ndash Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock&lsquoHugely accomplished&rsquo &ndash The Guardian&lsquoA playful, otherworldly debut&rsquo &ndash Stylist
Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: FRH; Weight: 358 g; Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 23
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Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize'Wildly seductive' &ndash Sarah Waters'Exquisite' &ndash New York Times'Deeply enjoyable' &ndash Daily TelegraphBriefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens is a historical otherworldly story about breaking convention, and about love &ndash secret, forbidden, unrequited.Blanca has been dead for a few centuries when she falls in love &ndash instantly and devotedly &ndash with celebrated novelist George Sand. George is unlike anyone Blanca has encountered in hundreds of years of haunting a woman dressed in men&rsquos 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, Frédéric Chopin. As the weather and the locals turn against this strange couple, can the love of a teenage ghost keep them from disaster?'Dazzling' &ndash Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces and Milk Fed&lsquoA luscious, multisensory bewitchment of a book&rsquo &ndash Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies&lsquoA shining work of art&rsquo &ndash Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory'Electrifyingly beautiful, exhilaratingly clever . . . sensual, original, intelligent and brimming with love' &ndash Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock&lsquoHugely accomplished&rsquo &ndash The Guardian&lsquoA playful, otherworldly debut&rsquo &ndash Stylist
Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: FRH; Weight: 358 g; Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 23
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