Publisher's Synopsis
When, in the spring of 1592, fictional eighteen-year-old Constance Shakespeare joins her brother, Will, in London, she is in for any number of surprises. Expecting opportunities not available under her father’s domination in Stratford, she finds life in London far more complicated and challenging, yet exhilarating, than she could possibly have imagined. She must learn to navigate a city teeming with a range of characters from aristocrats to common folk, from the highly educated to the illiterate, from the honest to the con artist, from the highly moral to a would-be rapist. Most of all, she has to cope with her brilliant but stubborn and, occasionally, narrow-minded brother. Along the way, she finds love, sexual intimacy and friendship but also travels a path that sets her at odds with the strict conventions of Elizabethan society.
