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

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.