Briefly, A Delicious Life is a beautifully spooky, mysterious novel full of joy and sadness, love and loss. It’s a gorgeous depiction of the human experience and I loved it.

Blanca, a centuries-old teenage ghost, immediately falls for the beautifully strange George Sand after she arrives, dressed like a man, at the remote Charterhouse which Blanca inhabits, with Chopin and her children in tow. What ensues is a simultaneously haunting and amusing journey through the characters’ pasts, presents, and beyond.

In 19th Century Mallorca, the locals have a deep distrust for this odd, foreign family. Beginning with a simple desire for peace and better health in the Mediterranean air after the wild days of their lives in Paris, their experience becomes something else entirely.

With prose which flows effortlessly in short, fast-paced chapters, a narrator who is one of my new favourite characters, and a whole lot of sapphic yearning, I will undoubtedly be making this novel my whole personality for the foreseeable future.

This novel does contain some difficult subject matter, so please check trigger warnings before reading.

(ARC received from Picador via NetGalley)