I knew the generations of monks, and after they left, the great silence of the place. I knew more about it than anyone else, that was for sure. Over the centuries, I suppose, I came to think of it as solely my domain. I died in 1473, when I was fourteen years old, and had been at the Charterhouse ever since. She was shortlisted for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award and is an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. Stevens is the author of Bleaker House and The Victorian & the Romantic, which won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award. The following is from Nell Stevens' Briefly, A Delicious Life, a daring ghost story about a teenage ghost who falls in love with a writer who doesn’t know she exists.
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