Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
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'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.
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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?
