A Quiet Adjustment

Nineteen-year -old Annabella Milbanke, visiting London for the swirl of parties and engagements of the season, is introduced to Byron at a waltz. He has just published Childe Harold, and is surrounded by a crowd of admirers, one of whom is his half-sister Augusta Leigh. Annabella and Byron fall in love, but Augusta's unwelcome presence in their relationship becomes increasingly unbearable. Caught up in a potentially scandalous love triangle, Annabella must decide whether following her heart is the most dangerous thing she has ever done . . .



Benjamin Markovits has written three previous novels,

The Syme Papers,

Either Side of Winter and

Imposture. Originally from Texas, he now lives in London and writes for the

London Review of Books and the

Times Literary Supplement.