Book description
Three years after Lord Byron dismissed him from his service, Dr
John Polidori has fallen on hard times. And then a young woman
mistakes the doctor for the poet. As the pair fall in love, Polidori
knows that he can only emerge from Byron's shadow if he confesses his
true identity to the deluded girl; but was it only Byron's shadow that
led her to love him in the first place? And a ghost story, The
Vampyre, is published under Byron's name, but will the truth of the
matter be uncovered?
Benjamin Markovits has written two previous novels, The Syme
Papers and Either Side of Winter. Originally from Texas, he now lives
in London and writes for the London Review of Books and the Times
Literary Supplement.
