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

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

2017 • 256 pages

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It's a fun premise for a story: Nell Stevens is a wonderful writer but nothing happens in her stories, so she decides to travel to what is almost literally the ends of the earth to write. Ironically, while she is there, alone on one of the Falkland Islands, nothing happens to her, and her novel goes nowhere, and she decides to write an account of her time in the Falkland Islands, where nothing happened. What is the result? This book, beautifully written (because she is a wonderful writer) but it's a story she has to pad by including the novel she tried to write, a story she wrote earlier in her life, and little stories about other events in her life. It is fine writing but my advice to you, Nell? People really want things to happen in the stories they read. Next time, perhaps, you should travel to a busier spot?

June 24, 2017Report this review