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” Briefly, a Delicious Life” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing—a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can’t see her and doesn’t know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George’s case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training).
Charming, original, and emotionally moving, this “deeply wild debut follows the unconventional love triangle” (Cosmopolitan) between George, Chopin, and Blanca—a gorgeous and surprising exploration of artistry, desire, and life after death.

Brief Summary Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens

First of all, this is a debut novel by a writer who has published only non-fiction to this point. And she knocked it out of the park, in my opinion. The prose is exquisite without being overly flowery. The characters have depth even though the book is a mere 300 pages. The chapters are short, and despite being a mix of flashbacks and present-day, it is obvious who is speaking and when the events are taking place. I was enthralled within the first few chapters, and my affection for this book only grew as I read it. It was an easy five stars for me. Having said that, I do think that this book is targeted at specific subsets of an audience. It is not for the close-minded, the homophobic, the readers who require a book to follow a set structure or plot device. It might resonate best with a slightly more experienced crowd, maybe a woman in her 30s who has not only loved and lost, but also loved and won and then felt moments of regret over that winning as the months and years go on. There is no overt romance in this story, so readers who need that in a book will be disappointed.