Flames & funerals, circus feats & seduction, neighbours & nakedness: a sparkling historical drama from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring. Uprooting from their quiet Dorset village to the carnal streets of London, young Jem Kellaway & his family feel far from home. The Kellaways struggle to fi nd their place in a tumultuous city, alive with repercussions from the blood-splattered French Revolution. Luckily streetwise Maggie Butterfi eld is on hand to show Jem the ropes. Together they encounter the neighbour they`ve been warned about: radical poet & artist William Blake. Jem & Maggie`s passage from innocence to experience becomes the very stuff of poetic inspiration.