The Lost Memoirs of Lord Byron

It is the summer of 1806, and Lord Byron, a dashing, charismatic poet with a range of fashionably ragged shirts, has fled to Portugal. He is on the run from furious husbands, law suits, demented admirers and his own ex-wife, a miserable mathematician. (Need we say more?) These memoirs, secretly snatched from the flames and hidden for two centuries, reveal his struggles with poverty, the hurly burly of his amours, his struggle to gain respect from his sardonic Australian valet Collins and his explosive relations with the Portuguese Royal Family. Details of his swims, his seductions, and his patisserie are faithfully recorded, and he does not shrink to describe his imprisonment and interrogation by the Portuguese Chief of Police, Kevin Mourinho - a tragic figure. After a catastrophic denouement at a royal picnic, we find Byro on a deserted beach, heading off in an entirely unexpected direction...