{"id":3875,"date":"2025-01-20T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2025-01-20T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:12:40","slug":"viva-byron-published-in-both-hardback-and-e-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=3875","title":{"rendered":"Viva Byron! published in both hardback and e-book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What would have happened if the poet Lord Byron had not died an early death in Greece?<\/p>\n

But instead had lived \u2013 and then some \u2013 by doing what his letters show he always wanted to do: escape to South America with the great last love of his life, Countess Teresa Guiccioli, and help Simon Bolivar liberate it from the Spanish.<\/p>\n

This great sweep of a novel imagines just that and takes the poet and his lover into a New World of the Americas where nothing is ever quite as they expect.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bold, bewitching and a touch dangerous \u2013 like Lord Byron himself<\/em>\u2019\u00a0 Benedict Allen<\/p>\n

\u2018Hugh Thomson is a mesmerising storyteller\u2019 <\/em>\u00a0Sara Wheeler<\/p>\n

\u2018Literally fabulous! Unmissable\u2026\u2019<\/em>\u00a0 Joanna Lumley<\/p>\n

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So if anyone’s wondered what I’ve been doing during the extended radio silence it’s because I have determinedly not been doing any other activities other than getting this novel finished!<\/p>\n

Which has involved travelling to Colombia to research it and the usual amount of concentrated work\u2026<\/p>\n

But I’m very pleased with the result and I hope that all my readers feel it’s been worth the wait.<\/p>\n

The Kindle ebook version is available from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The hardback versions is also available from Amazon<\/a> and all good booksellers \u00a0from January 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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