Bleaker House : Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

'Perfect' Lena Dunham
'This year's literary sensation' Evening Standard

How far would you travel to become a writer? For Nell Stevens, the answer was 8000 miles from home to Bleaker Island in the Falklands, where the official population is just two people. Armed with a strict regime of 1085 calories a day and three months to write the novel that would make her name, she set out with high hopes and a clear plan.

But when you're truly alone at the end of the world, isolation has a way of getting to you in unexpected ways. What follows is both hilarious and heartbreaking: a book about loneliness and creativity, about discovering who you are when there's no one else around, and about what happens when even the best-laid plans fall apart.

Ultimately, Nell may have failed to write the novel she set out to create, but she succeeded in something far more important: she became a writer.