Bleaker House - Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

'Perfect' Lena Dunham
'This year's literary sensation' Evening Standard
8000 miles from home
1085 calories a day
3 months to write the novel that would make her name
At least that was the plan. But when Nell Stevens travelled to Bleaker Island in the Falklands (official population: two) she didn't count on the isolation getting to her . . .
Hilarious and heartbreaking, this is a book about loneliness and creativity. It is about discovering who you are when there's no one else around. And it's about what to do when a plan doesn't work: ultimately Nell may have failed to write a novel, but she succeeded in becoming a writer.

About the author

Nell Stevens writes memoir and fiction. She is the author of Bleaker House and Mrs Gaskell and Me, which won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award. She was shortlisted for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award. 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. Briefly, A Delicious Life is her debut novel.

Summary

'Perfect' Lena Dunham 'This year's literary sensation' Evening Standard

How far would you travel to become a writer?
8000 miles from home
1085 calories a day
3 months to write the novel that would make her name

At least that was the plan. But when Nell Stevens travelled to Bleaker Island in the Falklands (official population: two) she didn’t count on the isolation getting to her . . .

Hilarious and heartbreaking, this is a book about loneliness and creativity. It is about discovering who you are when there’s no one else around. And it’s about what to do when a plan doesn’t work: ultimately Nell may have failed to write a novel, but she succeeded in becoming a writer.

Foreword

Funny, warm and wise, Bleaker House is a book about trying, and failing, to write a novel.

Additional text

Quirky . . . fascinating . . . she may not have written the novel of her dreams, but the book she has produced will resonate with anyone who has shared her ambitions [to write].

Product details

• Authors: Nell Stevens, Stevens Nell
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781509824403
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-2440-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; South America, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, Autobiography: general, Short Stories, Memoirs, TRAVEL / South America / General, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary, HUMOR / Topic / Travel, Humour, Travel writing, Autobiography: literary, Falklands, Travel and holiday, Language learning: writing skills, Gender studies: women and girls, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Autobiography: writers, Biography: writers, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc