![]() ![]() Nell Stevens’s debut novel combines fictionalised biography with an unusual variation on a ghost story. ![]() ![]() As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George’s case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training).Ĭharming, original, and emotionally moving - gorgeous and surprising exploration of artistry, desire, and life after death. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants.īlanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing-a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can’t see her and doesn’t know she exists. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. A playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sands. ![]()
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