BLEAK HOUSE GUEST follows true events that saw Hans Christian Andersen turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of his idol Charles Dickens and prove to be the most impossible house-guest imaginable. Hans wildly overstayed his welcome and the two fell out in spectacular style with the literary Greats reduced to very little men indeed. By the time Hans left, he'd been the unwitting catalyst in the Dickens' divorce, which happened shortly after.