Briefly, A Delicious Life
23 June 2022Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence, humour and joy' - Sarah Waters
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
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...
Details
23 June 2022589 minutes
Ell Potter
9781529083460Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A luscious, multi-sensory bewitchment of a book - Stevens’ writing rings with wit and surpriseKiran Millwood Hargrave, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies
I found myself floored by the astonishing freshness of this historical novel . . . A shining work of art, but so deftfully, gracefully done, that it was a struggle to stop myself from turning the pages. Nell Stevens is an original, whose touch is as deft as it is masterful
Elizabeth Macneal, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory
Stevens is brilliant at describing desireGuardian
Deeply enjoyable, guilefulTelegraph
