The Scandal of the Season: A Novel

From author of The Barbarous Feast comes a sparkling literary novel set in 18th-century London that follows the young poet Alexander Pope and the grand, ill-fated love affair between Arabella Fermor and Lord Petre that inspired his most famous poem, “The Rape of the Lock”.

London, 1711. As the rich, young offspring of the city’s most fashionable families fill their days with masquerade balls and clandestine courtships, Arabella Fermor and Robert, Lord Petre, lead the pursuit of pleasure. Bea...