Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
Like New condition second hand copy for £10.00, sold by jsandersbooks on ReReadz.
- Author
- Nell Stevens
- Price
- £10.00 plus tracked UK delivery from £2.99
- Condition
- Like New
- Format
- Hardcover
- Published
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529083422
- Sold by
- jsandersbooks
About this copy
Briefly, A Delicious Life tells the story of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand's brief and mostly disastrous stay in an empty monastery in Valldemossa in Mallorca in 1838. The novel is narrated by Blanca, the ghost of a girl who has been at the monastery ever since her death over 300 years previously. Blanca's is 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 - bread crumbs in a soup here (for her gluten-intolerant victim), a knocked ink pot there, and once even a heart attack. And then George Sand arrives, this beautiful woman in a man's clothes, and Blanca is in love. Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens is richly witty and enormously moving. It is a novel about convention and breaking convention, about love - yearning love, secret love, forbidden and unrequited love - about art and creativity and about men and women and the violence they mete out to one another. For fans of How to Be Both and The Liar's Dictionary.
First Edition, First Printing, 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 , Signed by the Author, Picador, 2022. The book and the dust jacket are both Fine. The Author has flat signed the title page. There is a "Signed Copy" label on the front. The dust jacket has slight edge wear, with no rips or tears and is not price clipped (£14.99). The spine is sound and the book has no other inscriptions. The pages are clean and unmarked. Sent within 24 hours. Ref: BK1891.