The Fall of the House of Byron

Emily Brand

THE RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

'Gobsmacking' The Times

'Luscious' Mail on Sunday

'Delectable . . . ravishing' Sunday Times

'A chocolate box full of delicious gothic delights - jump in' Lucy Worsley

'Stranger than fiction as dark as any gothic drama . . . utterly gripping' Amanda Foreman

'Brings to life the colourful characters of the Georgian era's most notorious families with all the verve and skill of the era's finest novelists . . . A powdered and pomaded sordid and silk-swathed adventure' Hallie Rubenhold



Many know Lord Byron as leading poet of the Romantic movement. But few know the dynasty from which he emerged; infamous for its scandal and impropriety with tales of elopement murder kidnaping profligacy doomed romance and adultery. A sumptuous story that begins in rural Nottinghamshire and plays out in the gentleman's clubs of Georgian London amid tempests on far-flung seas and in the glamour of pre-revolutionary France The Fall of the House of Byron is the acclaimed account of intense family drama over three turbulent generations.

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