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A queer ghost is haunting (= falling in love) with George Sand in an abandoned monastery in Mallorca. It‘s creative, literary, bittersweet and definitely worth reading.

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A charming tale of all of life's changes as witnessed by Blanca, a teenage ghost. Her home is in an abandoned monastery in Mallorca. The author George Sand brings her 2 children and her lover, the ailing Chopin, to recuperate during their stay. The story unwinds through Blanca's viewpoint with interludes of her own story. All that echoes down the ages is our innate yearning for love, connection and acceptance.

A very enjoyable read, set in Mallorca and Paris. It tells the story of George Sands and her children, along with her lover Frédéric Chopin, to move to Mallorca to help his ailing health. The story is narrated by Blanca, a ghost dead 300 years. It's very emotional and moving.

This is my first read in June and I am loving it.

Yet another game seven and I‘m riding high on finishing a book yesterday, and maybe I can finish another???

I‘ve read quite a few books recently that shouldn‘t work for me, but I end up loving them, and this is another one.

Narrated by the ghost of a young girl (which is why I shouldn‘t like it!), this novel imagines what happens when Chopin and George Sand arrive to holiday at a remote monastery in Valdemossa, Mallorca.

I actually have, on my TBR shelf, the book written by Sand during their stay so need to get to that soon. (A Winter in Majorca)

Just went back and read my review of the first book I read from Nell Stevens, (one of her memoirs), and my feelings on this book share some similarities.
1) I'm not sure what the goal was, other than recounting a factual, if miserable, moment in historical figures' lives, now with bonus ghost.
2) There were a number of moving parts that didn't necessarily add up to a satisfying reading experience. 1/?

Highly identify with Solange: some of my favourite memories involve not having the sense to come in out of the rain. 🌧️☺️

Pffft, a ghost and a doctor are bound to have differing perspectives on such matters. 😆

Poetic sensuality of descriptions, literal engaging of multiple senses, sounds, textures, smells, tastes, really helps to alleviate the creepy, voyeuristic tinge to ghost's perspective.

I read a wee bit more of BRIEFLY, A DELICIOUS LIFE over paneer makhani made with my first-ever homemade paneer! (My first-ever homemade cheese of any sort.) I hope to really sink into it tonight. It feels like a book I could love.

Loved this book! Love this writer. A feminist, nuanced, modern and funny take on 16th and 19th century life. Beautifully drawn characters

Loved this novel of a 14 year old ghost that falls in love with George Sand. There is a great rhythm to the story telling and she holds some secrets until the final chapter. Just loved it! Read this book in just a couple of days.

A surprising, exquisite novel. Don‘t be put off by the fact that this story is told by a love-struck ghost. This is a rich and beautifully written novel which explores big themes with a deft touch. George Sand and Chopin leap off the page, two tornadoes of creative endeavor. Wonderfully unusual. I loved it.

The concept - a centuries-old teenage ghost narrates the winter that George Sand and Chopin spend in Mallorca in the 1830s - was promising and the writing itself is lovely but I found myself bored more often than not.

In this historical ghost story, a fourteen-year-old girl who died in the fifteenth-century is enamored by a new woman who arrives at the hilltop monastery she's been haunting since her death. This woman, the author George Sand, wears trousers like a man and shocks the conservative inhabitants of Mallorca. I really enjoyed this story and how the story of Blanca's life and death in the 1400s is interwoven with the arrival of George 400 years later.