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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Bleaker House
Author: STEVENS NELL
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 30/05/2017
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
When Nell Stevens was given the opportunity to spend three months in a location of her choice in order to write her novel, she was determined to rid herself of all distractions. So Nell decided to travel to Bleaker Island (official population: two) in the Falklands where she would write 2,500 words a day.
But <i>Bleaker House</i> is not that novel. Instead this is a book about a young woman realising that the way to writing fiction doesn't necessarily lie in total solitude and a clear plan. Nor does it lie in a daily ration of 1085 calories, no means of contacting the outside world and a slow descent towards something that feels worryingly like madness . . .
Hilariously funny, painfully honest, and beautifully observed, <i>Bleaker House</i> is part memoir, part travelogue, part story collection. It is an exploration of the narrow spaces between real life and fiction and, in the end, a book about failing to write a novel, but finally becoming a writer.
ISBN: 9781509824410
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 208mm X 135mm
Pages: 256