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Nell Stevens

Biography

Nell Stevens

Nell Stevens is the author of BLEAKER HOUSE and THE VICTORIAN & THE ROMANTIC, which won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award. She was shortlisted for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award, and her writing has been published in The New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta and elsewhere. Nell is an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.

Nell Stevens

Books by Nell Stevens

Briefly, A Delicious Life
by Nell Stevens - Fiction, Historical Fiction

In 1473, 14-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly 400 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. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing --- the impossible love of a teenage ghost for a woman who can’t see her and doesn’t know she exists.