Infamous

Dickinson meets Booksmart with a dash of Little Women in Infamous,a Regency-era queer romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist twistfrom Lex Croucherthe author of Reputation. Twenty-two-year-old aspiring writer Edith (ΓÇ£EddieΓÇ¥) Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything togetherΓÇöfrom climbing trees and sneaking bottles of wineto extensive kissing practice. But Rose has started talking about marriageand Eddie is horrified. Why canΓÇÖt they continue as they always have? Then Eddie meets charmingrenowned poet Nash NicholsonΓÇôΓÇôa rival of Lord Byronif he does say so himselfΓÇôΓÇôand he welcomes her into his world of eccentric artists and boundary-breaking visionaries. When Eddie receives an invitation to Nash’s crumbling Gothic estate in the countrysidepromising inspiration (and time to finish her novela long-held dream)she eagerly agrees. But the pure hedonism and debauchery that ensues isnΓÇÖt exactly what she had in mindand Eddie soon finds herself torn between her complicated feelings for Rose and her equally complicated dynamic with Nashwhose increasingly bad behavior doesnΓÇÖt match up to her vision for her literary hero. Will Eddie be forced to choose between her friendship with Rose and her literary dreamsΓÇôΓÇôor will she be able to write her own happily ever after?