The Lambs of London Author:Peter Ackroyd Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller’s son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no or... more »dinary book -- it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and red hair is no ordinary young man.
The Lambs of London brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, actors and theater managers, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father, and no one knows quite what to believe. Can Mary Lamb -- vulnerable, sheltered, idealistic -- survive such an introduction to the many frailities of human nature?« less