(Tin House Books) As a young woman whose world is subsumed by the onset of World War I, Georgie Hyde-Lees, in a bid to salvage a sliver of independence, takes a position tending injured officers in a temporary hospital in London while in her free time, she is socializing with her best friend Dorothy, daughter of the novelist Olivia Shakespear and soon-to-be-wife of the expat poet Ezra Pound, and surreptitiously growing closer with the object of her most devoted attention, the renowned Irish poet, W. B. Yeat … (read more)
