What a weird but wonderful book. We have a centuries-old ghost (Blanca) who falls in love with George Sands, the very-much-alive and very-much-a-real-person lover of the composer Chopin.

There is no real plot. Instead we watch and observe with Blanca, remember with George, and explore the lives of these three people. We get to know George through both Blanca’s eyes and her own, and slowly peel back the layers of the characters’ lives. It would have been nice to have slightly stronger arcs for the characters – I definitely got to the end and felt like nothing had happened – but the they are all depicted in a very engaging way.

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The prose is effortless; you can’t help but get swept up and transported into the story. The writing was beautiful without being dense and regardless of your thoughts on the plot or characters it is an undeniable joy to read. It’s historical fiction, it’s literary fiction, with a heavy dose of magical realism to tie the whole thing together.

I received a free copy for review from NetGalley. All opinions are my own.