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The Fall of the House of Byron

By: Emily Brand
Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
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At the beginning of the 18th century, Newstead Abbey was one of the most prosperous and fashionable aristocratic homes in England. It was the abode of William the 4th Baron Byron - a popular and successful composer and artist - and his teenage wife, Frances. But only a few decades later, at the end of the century, the building had become a crumbling and ill-cared-for ruin.

The 4th Baron and most of his relatives had died, leaving the incumbent owner, William the 5th Baron Byron (the 'Wicked Lord'), lying on his deathbed alongside his last remaining servant and amidst a thriving population of crickets.

This was the home that a small, pudgy boy of 10 from Aberdeen - who the world would later come to know as Lord Byron, the Romantic poet, soldier and adventurer - would inherit in 1798. His family, he would come to learn, had in recent decades become known for almost unfathomable levels of scandal and impropriety, from elopement, murder and kidnapping to adultery, coercion and thrilling near-death naval experiences. Just as it had shocked the society of Georgian London, the story of the Byrons and the folklore of their outlandish scandal, would his influence his life and poetry for posterity.

The Fall of the House of Byron follows the fates of Lord Byron's ancestors over three generations in a drama that begins in rural Nottinghamshire and plays out in the gentlemans' clubs of Georgian London, amid tempests on far-flung seas and in the glamour of pre-revolutionary France. A compelling story of a prominent and controversial characters, it is a sumptuous family portrait and an electrifying work of social history.

©2020 Emily Brand (P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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