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

Paperback Published on: 08/03/2018
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Bookseller Reviews

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Bleaker House
A novel, biography and travel diary all in one....
Nell Stevens had a fantastic idea to write a novel in the most isolated island in The Falklands with nothing but the wilderness, penguins and her ideas. ... READ MORE
Emine at Bromley

Synopsis

'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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9781509824403
  • Number of pages: 256
  • Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 16 mm
  • Weight: 188g
  • Languages: English

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Bleaker House
A Glorious hodge hodge
A strange novel, not really a novel about a woman who wants to be a novelist and goes off to the Falkland Islands to figure out how to write a novel and en... READ MORE
Katy Wheatley