Author: Stevens, Nell SpainPublished on 22 June 2023 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 336 pages129 x 197 x 23 | 242g Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize'Wildly seductive' Sarah Waters - 'Exquisite' New York Times - 'Deeply enjoyable' Daily TelegraphBlanca 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 mens clothes, a ferocious writer, a passionate lover of men and women alike and an ambivalent mother.It is 1838, and George has come to the island of Mallorca with her ailing lover, Frdric Chopin. As the weather and the locals turn against this strange couple, can the love of a teenage ghost keep them from disaster?Briefly, A Delicious Life is a story about breaking convention, and about love yearning, secret, forbidden, unrequited.'Dazzling' Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces and Milk FedA luscious, multi-sensory bewitchment of a book Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The MerciesA shining work of art Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory'Electrifyingly beautiful, exhilaratingly clever . . . sensual, original, intelligent and brimming with love' Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs HancockHugely accomplished The GuardianA playful, otherworldly debut Stylist
