Blanca is a furious, hilarious fourteen year old ghost who lives in the former monastery where Sand and Chopin have come to escape the pressures of life in Paris, along with Sand’s children and a maid.
For the first time in Stevens’ books we’re clearly in fiction territory: in the first paragraph, the narrator and real star of the novel, Blanca, declares that she has been ‘in Valldemossa for over three centuries’. After Bleaker House, a memoir about trying to write a novel, and Mrs Gaskell and Me, a memoir about trying to write a doctoral thesis, Nell Stevens continues her playful interrogation of the relationships between life, writing and life-writing with an account of the French novelist George Sand’s time in Mallorca with Frederic Chopin.
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