From an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, a wonderfully smooth, sinuous, enigmatic, and sexy tale of two love affairs Providence Journal set in Amherst and illuminated by the presence of Emily Dickinson. Alice Dickinson, a young advertising executive in London, decides to take time off work to research her idea for a screenplay the true story of the scandalous, adulterous love affair between Emily Dickinsons married brother, Austin, and a young, Amherst College faculty wife named Mabel Loomis Todd. Austin, twenty-four years Mabels senior and the college treasurer, lived next door to his reclusive sister, who allowed her home to be used for Austin and Mabels trysts. Alice travels to Amherst, staying in the house of Nick Crocker, a married English academic in his fifties.
