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Bay of Naples, October 1820. John Keats is dying.

Confined to a quarantine ship for ten days before he can set foot on Italian soil, the greatest young poet of his generation looks back across his short, blazing life. His rise from obscurity. His poetry. And Fanny Brawne, the nineteen year old woman he loves and has left behind in Hampstead, waiting for news that is slow to come and devastating when it arrives.

In Wentworth Place, Fanny waits. Six weeks of silence, of isolation, of being tolerated but never accepted by the small circle of men who surround Keats and have never thought her worthy of him. History agreed with them. For two centuries she was dismissed as shallow, vain, undeserving. This book gives her back her voice.…