Passion

Theirs was a world of obsession genius and above all… 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.With the originality richness and daring of the poets themselves Passion presents the Romantic generation in a new and unforgettable light.