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In 1864, a small corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson, photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, actress Ellen Terry and painter G.F. Watts are thrown into the company of Lorenzo Fowler, and a tale of Victorian seriousness and riotous farce takes flight.
Synopsis
From the bestselling author of 'Eats Shoots & Leaves', an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.