Nell Stevens Books in Order

Awarded a fellowship to write anywhere in the world, Nell Stevens chooses a remote island in the Falklands. This memoir follows the isolation, practical difficulties and unexpected memories that challenge her plan to finally complete a novel.

Nell Stevens interweaves her experiences as a graduate student with the life of Elizabeth Gaskell. Their parallel encounters with unrequited love become a way to examine ambition, academic disappointment and the struggle to create a life beyond inherited expectations.

Centuries after dying in a Mallorcan monastery, teenage ghost Blanca watches George Sand arrive with Chopin and her children. Her unrequited fascination with the writer intertwines with memories of her own life and the visitors’ uneasy relationship with the village.

At an English country estate in 1899, aspiring art forger Grace plans to fund her escape through counterfeit paintings. The arrival of a man claiming to be her long-lost cousin unsettles the household and forces her to question identity, inheritance and deception.