02508cam a2200397 i 4500 603693332 TxGeo 20220825120000.0 211115s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021055766 9781982190941 hbk. 1982190949 hbk. (OCoLC)1281580157 TxGeo rda Stevens, Nell, 1985-, author. Briefly, a delicious life : a novel / Nell Stevens. Delicious life. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022. 294 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A lively, daring ghost story about a dead teen girl who falls in love with a female writer who has no idea she exists. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in childbirth in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. 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. 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. 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 involves an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training). Charming, original, and emotionally moving, this is a surprisingly touching story about romantic fixation and a powerful meditation on creativity"-- Provided by publisher. 20220909. Sand, George 1804-1876 Fiction. Infatuation Fiction. Monasteries Spain Fiction. Haunted places Spain Fiction. Romance fiction. Valldemosa (Spain) Fiction. Ghost stories. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. QS5