![]() ![]() Sand’s masculine gender expression immediately draws Blanca’s fascination even as it alarms the locals, who are already wary of foreigners and Chopin’s obvious ill health. The monks Blanca used to torment with poltergeistlike antics are long gone, and Blanca’s last living direct relative, a “multiple-times-great granddaughter,” is on death’s door when, out of the blue, new tenants arrive at the Charterhouse: French writer George Sand Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, her lover her two children and a servant girl. She’s discovered things about herself since passing on-she’s attracted to women as well as men, and her spectral powers include the ability to explore people’s memories and gaze into their futures-but has also found her afterlife growing smaller and smaller in scope as time wears on. She’s never encountered a fellow ghost and has spent the past 365 years silently observing the living. A 15th-century ghost describes falling in love with an oblivious George Sand during her family’s stay in Mallorca in this lyrical debut novel.īlanca died at the age of 14 in 1473 and has been haunting the Charterhouse, a once-bustling monastery in Valldemossa, ever since. ![]()
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