<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE<br>'Wildly seductive' </b>SARAH WATERS - <b>'Exquisite' </b><i>NEW YORK TIMES - </i><b>'Deeply enjoyable' </b><i>DAILY TELEGRAPH</i><br><br>Blanca has been dead for a few centuries when she falls in love – instantly and devotedly – with celebrated novelist George Sand. George is unlike anyone Blanca has encountered in hundreds of years of haunting: a woman dressed in men’s clothes, a ferocious writer, a passionate lover of men and women alike and an ambivalent mother.<br><br>It is 1838, and George has come to the island of Mallorca with her ailing lover, Frédéric Chopin. As the weather and the locals turn against this strange couple, can the love of a teenage ghost keep them from disaster?<br><br><i>Briefly, A Delicious Life</i> is a story about breaking convent
