1890, Hampshire: Maud Blake, spinster companion
to a flighty young widow, is the least important woman at the weekly poetry
circle. She sits at the back, barely
able to see the poet who presides over them all, but she requires only his
words to fuel her dreams.
Maxwell Wainwright, poet, lives peacefully in the market
town of Daneburton. He presides with formality and restraint over his poetry circle and the clammering
attention of the ladies who attend him.
His life has been peaceful for twenty years, since the death
of two women who loved him and the flight of his best
friend, photographer Brough Fawley to the continent. Max
retreated from London, from affection and intimacy, to the small market town. Now Brough has returned, his eyes on everything
Max has nurtured and shaped for two decades.
In stark black and white, he reveals love, lust and hypocrisy in the
small market town. In his wake he brings
Death yet again, but who does Judgement strike down and who will escape?
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