Tennyson's Gift

From the bestselling author of ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’, an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting ''Maud'' to empty sofas; the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and the mis...