Verdict: an unusual and utterly absorbing memoir, an apt examination of one young woman’s struggle to create in solitude In general, I think memoirs are best told by writers who have a few decades under their belts. Memoir by its very nature tends to veer toward navel-gazing; it takes a degree of intellectual rigor and self-depecration to…Continue reading Bleaker House by Nell Stevens – Loneliness & Creativity in the Falklands