A Quiet Adjustment

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Amid a swirl of parties and engagements, eligible bachelors and dazzling debutantes comes nineteen year old Lady Annabella Milbanke, already well-versed in London social life in the early nineteenth century. Then comes an invitation to a post-breakfast waltzing party at her Aunt Caroline's. The word is that Lord Byron will be there. With the extraordinary acclaim for Childe Harold still foremost in the public consciousness, Byron's presence at the party both excites and appalls. Certainly he attracts his fair share of admirers, amongst whom Annabella notices his partial relation, his sister, Augusta Leigh. These three characters form the extraordinary menage-a-trois at the heart of this remarkably elegant novel. Written with enormous passion and sympathetic understanding for the complex passions at the heart of Byron's personality, A Moth to a Flame dramatises the rise and fall of a famous literary romance and the relationship in its shadow.

Author Bio

Benjamin Markovits has written three previous novels, The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter and Imposture. Originally from Texas, he now lives in London and writes for the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.