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Briefly, A Delicious Life
Nell Stevens
- Picador (MacMillan)
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Publisher | Picador (MacMillan) |
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ISBN | 9781529083439 |
Publication date | June 2022 |
Edition | Trade Pb |
Dimensions | mm |
Pages | 336 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
In 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live a simple life after the wildness of their Paris days.
Witness to this tumultuous arrival is Blanca, the ghost of a teenage girl who has been at the monastery for over three hundred years. Blanca’s was a life cut short and she is outraged. Having lived in a world full, according to her mother, of ‘beautiful men’, she has found that in death it is the women she falls for, their beauty she cannot turn away from, and it is the women and girls who, over her centuries in the village and at the monastery, she has sought to protect from the attentions of men with what little power she has. And then George Sand arrives, this beautiful woman in a man’s clothes, and Blanca is in love.