In the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the
Napoleonic Wars, three poets—Byron, Shelley, and Keats—
come to prominence, famous and infamous, for their vivid
personalities, and their glamorous, shocking, and
sometimes tragic lives. In this electrifying novel, those
lives are explored through the eyes of the women who knew
and loved them—intensely, scandalously.
Four women from widely different backgrounds are linked by
a sensational fate. Mary Shelley: the gifted daughter of
gifted parents, for whom passion leads to exile, loss, and
a unique fame. Lady Caroline Lamb: born to fabulous wealth
and aristocratic position, who risks everything for the
ultimate love affair. Fanny Brawne: her quiet, middle-
class girlhood is transformed—and immortalized—by a
disturbing encounter with genius. Augusta Leigh: the
unassuming poor relation who finds herself flouting the
greatest of all taboos.
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