![]() ![]() But her descendants have almost died out, the monks have gone, and Blanca is lonely. She has lurked in Valldemossa, and in particular at the Charterhouse, ever since, pestering badly behaved monks and trying to protect her long line of granddaughters and great-great-great-granddaughters. “It was 1838 and I had been at the Charterhouse in Valldemossa for over three centuries by then.”īlanca is a ghost, a 14-year-old girl who died almost 400 years earlier. “Of course, it wasn’t the first time I’d seen two men kissing,” narrator Blanca says in the novel’s first line, describing when George arrives at the monastery dressed in her usual men’s suit and kisses Chopin. ![]() This is where Briefly, a Delicious Life, the debut novel from Nell Stevens (author of the memoir Bleaker House), begins. ![]() (Sand wrote about their stay in a travel memoir titled A Winter in Majorca.) The group landed on the island of Majorca, taking rooms at a defunct monastery, the Charterhouse, in the remote village of Valldemossa. In 1838, the French novelist George Sand (pen name for Aurore Dupin) decided that a winter away from Paris would be good for her, her two children and her ailing lover, Frederic Chopin, who had tuberculosis. ![]()
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