Publisher's Synopsis
Set in Italy in the late 1840s, this is the story of Edmund Rivers, an exiled 19-year-old Englishman, who lives in his uncle's house and finds himself not only socially transgressive but also on the fringe of intrigue, murder and betrayal.;The author's collection of stories "Allegro Postillions" won the Hawthornden and James Tait Black prizes for fiction and he recently published a book about Handel.
