A Quiet Adjustment

"Annabella Milbanke is beautiful, intelligent, self-possessed, and determined to buck the social conventions of her sheltered girlhood. The moment she sets eyes on the rock star of her age - the poetic genius and scandalous libertine Lord Byron - her every budding appetite (sensual, romantic, worldly) is stirred. Whether by love or by will, she must have Byron - just as, for an entirely different set of reasons, he must have her." "As Lady Byron, she believes she can suffer all for love - except, perhaps, her husband's most scandalous secret: his tormented, incestuous love for his half-sister, Augusta. These three people will pull one another into a taut, devastating drama of helpless intimacy." A Quiet Adjustment uses the biographical facts of Lord Byron's marriage and his relationship with his half-sister to paint the selfishness of the most sensitive artistic temperament, the pathos of mismatched marriage, the volatility of creative energies, and the limitations of morality and so-called good intentions. 

Author: Benjamin Markovits

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Released Date: 2009

ISBN: 9780571233359