Lex Croucher

22-year-old aspiring writer Edith 'Eddie' Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together-climbing trees, throwing grapes at boys, sneaking bottles of wine, practicing kissing . . .

But following their debutante ball Rose is suddenly talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified.

When Eddie meets charming, renowned poet Nash Nicholson, he invites her to his crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside. The entourage of eccentric artists indulging in pure hedonism is exactly what Eddie needs in order to forget Rose and finish her novel.

But Eddie might discover the world of famous literary icons isn't all poems and pleasure . . .

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'People don't understand,' he said,  face softening. 'Those of us who live to create, who throw ourselves upon the altar of art and bleed and bleed for it ... how could we ever really inhabit the same world as those who simply dress for the day and read the paper and never dream that they could be the god of something new?'

'None of us are true originals, Eddie. We piece an approximation of a person together from what we like and what we hate, and some- where in that muddle we find ourselves.'

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