'A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence,
humour and joy' - Sarah Waters In 1838 Frederic 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 ghost of a teenage girl who has been at the monastery
for over three hundred years. Blanca's was a life cut short and she
is outraged. Having lived in a world full, according to her mother,
of 'beautiful men', she has found that in death it is the women she
falls for, their beauty she cannot turn away from, and it is the
women and girls who, over her centuries in the village and at the
monastery, she has sought to protect from the attentions of men
with what little power she has. And then George Sand arrives, this
beautiful woman in a man's clothes, and Blanca is in love. But the
rest of the village is suspicious of the newcomers, and as winter
sets in, as George tries to keep her family and herself from
falling apart, as Chopin writes prelude after prelude in despair on
his tuneless piano, their stay looks likely to end in disaster . .
. Heady with the delicious scent of the Mediterranean, richly
witty, and utterly compulsive, Briefly, A Delicious Life is a story
about convention and breaking convention, about love - yearning,
secret, forbidden, unrequited - and about men and women and the
cruelty they mete out to one another. 'Electrifyingly beautiful,
exhilaratingly clever . . . sensual, original, intelligent and
brimming with love' - Imogen Hermes Gowar
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