Fall of the House of Byron

THE RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

''Gobsmacking'' The Times

''Luscious'' Mail on Sunday

''Delectable . . . ravishing'' Sunday Times

''A chocolate box full of delicious gothic delights - jump in'' Lucy Worsley

''Stranger than fiction, as dark as any gothic drama . . . utterly gripping'' Amanda Foreman

''Brings to life the colourful characters of the Georgian era''s most notorious families with all the verve and skill of the era''s finest novelists . . . A powdered and pomaded, sordid and silk-swathed adventure'' Hallie Rubenhold



Many know Lord Byron as leading poet of the Romantic movement. But few know the dynasty from which he emerged; infamous for its scandal and impropriety, with tales of elopement, murder, kidnaping, profligacy, doomed romance and adultery. A sumptuous story that begins in rural Nottinghamshire and plays out in the gentleman''s clubs of Georgian London, amid tempests on far-flung seas, and in the glamour of pre-revolutionary France, The Fall of the House of Byron is the acclaimed account of intense family drama over three turbulent generations.