Nell Stevens, an aspiring novelist, is awarded a global fellowship allowing her to live anywhere in the world for three months to focus on her work. Whimsically, she chooses Bleaker Island in the Falklands, a frigid outpost some 8,000 miles from London. There she carefully rations her food, reads (and rereads) Dickens’s Bleak House, and attempts not to lose her mind at the freezing tip of the world. This memoir’s portrayal of isolation and literary ambition is elevated by Stevens’s wry observations and moments of unexpected hilarity. A fantastic, funny book from a dazzling new talent.