Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel To The End Of The World

"In Bleaker House, Nell Stevens describes her time living almost entirely alone on barren, cold Bleaker Island in the Falklands. Though she was isolated, she reached a curious kind of calm: “Surrounded by people, it is very easy to feel alone. Surrounded by penguins, less so.” There, among the penguins, she found solitude, “the contented twin of loneliness.” Bleaker House is a graceful memoir about how loneliness can sometimes be other people."