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The Lovers of Amherst

By: William Nicholson
Narrated by: Katherine Mangold, Josie Dunn, Various
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August 1881: Mabel Todd arrives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband, David. Mabel soon fall passionately in love with Austin Dickinson, a married man with three children, and he with her.

October 2013: Alice Dickinson takes time off work to research a screenplay on a story that has fascinated her since her college days, when her love of Emily Dickinson's poems began. The story is the illicit love affair between Austin Dickinson and Mabel Todd.

©2015 William Nicholson (P)2015 W F Howes Ltd Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Women's Fiction
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I enjoyed this on several levels. So much has been written about Emily Dickinson and her poetry that you might have thought there was no more to ass. But William Nicholson has created Dickinson’s era and society startlingly well and inter-laced it with the fictional dizzying experience of a young rather troubled English writer travelling to Amherst in present time to research Dickinson for a screen play she intends to make.

Her experience echoes elements of Emily’s life subtly but dramatically and intriguingly. Emily herself remains an appropriately shadowy figure as the focus is on her bleakly married brother Austin and his deeply passionate affair with young married Mabel Todd who later fought for the publication of Emily’s poems. All this is well documented in letters and diaries, even the most seemingly incredible details of Mabel and Austin’s relationship.

The whole is intellectually intriguing and satisfying and the inter-woven poems add a deeply satisfying dimension to it all. The narrators are fully in tune with Nicholson’s work.


intellectually and emotionally satisfying!

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