Briefly, A Delicious Life

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<p><b>Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize<br><br>'Wildly seductive' - </b>Sarah Waters<br><b>'Exquisite' - </b><i>New York Times</i><br><b>'Deeply enjoyable' - </b><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><br><b><i>Briefly, A Delicious Life</i> by Nell Stevens is a historical otherworldly story about breaking convention, and about love - secret, forbidden, unrequited.</b><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><b>'Dazzling' - </b>Melissa Broder, author of <i>The Pisces</i> and <i>Milk Fed</i><br><br><b>'A luscious, multi-sensory bewitchment of a book' - </b>Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of <i>The Mercies</i><br><br><b>'A shining work of art' - </b>Elizabeth Macneal, author of <i>The Doll Factory</i><br><br><b>'Electrifyingly beautiful, exhilaratingly clever . . . sensual, </b><b>original, intelligent and brimming with love' - </b>Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of <i>The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock</i><br><br><b>'Hugely accomplished' - </b><i>The Guardian</i><br><br><b>'A playful, otherworldly debut' - </b><i>Stylist</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529083446

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

197 x 129 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan