Capriccio

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A young mother. A brutal winter. A tragedy that shakes a literary circle to its core.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Set against the charged atmosphere of swinging sixties London Capriccio is a novel shaped by passion scholarship and craft. It traces an obsessive love and its devastating consequences within an intimate circle of poets artists and lovers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At its centre is Esther a Russian-German refugee whose arrival shatters the fragile peace of a famous poetic marriage drawing her into a web of desire rivalry and emotional dependence. As private lives collide with public scrutiny the fragile boundaries between love power and self-destruction begin to fracture.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Drawing on extensive research while remaining a work of fiction Capriccio offers a richly imagined portrait of a literary scandal that shocked its era and continues to fascinate. All characters and identifying details have been fictionalised.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Written with emotional intelligence and restraint Capriccio will appeal to readers of literary historical fiction drawn to complex relationships artistic ambition and the fragile line between love and destruction.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This novel will resonate with readers interested in:</span></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Literary historical fiction</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Swinging sixties London</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fiction inspired by real literary lives</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Feminist perspectives on love and power</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Coercive control and domestic dynamics</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Women's mental health and suicide</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Literary fiction set within artistic circles</span></li></ul><p></p>