Like Amanda Foreman with Georgiana, Daisy Hay is set to revitalise the great British tradition of literary biography For fans of Stella Tillyard's groundbreaking Aristocrats, Fiona McCarthy's Eric Gill (not without its own hints of incest either) and Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men Daisy Hay will appear at festivals across Britain as part of major publicity push
Daisy Hay studied for her PhD at New Hall, Cambridge, and has recently taken up the Alistair Horne Fellowship at St. Antony's College, Oxford to research her next book. Young Romantics is her first book
'The originality of this engrossing narrative comes from Daisy Hay's unusual focus on the passionate allegiances and literary influences between her characters. With great skill she weaves in and out of the lives of these poets, novelists and philosophers, their husbands, wives, lovers, children, exploring the dual nature of the creative impulse, its individuality and the stimulus of kindred spirits. It is a most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'By assembling a great cast and exploring their high dramas, the author has given us a feast of a book' Edna O'Brien
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