One of the most exciting, lucid, and disturbing texts that English literature has offered us in recent decades... Roland Michell, an obscure English literature graduate, makes a discovery that could catapult his academic career: two unfinished, never-sent letters that reveal the relationship between Randolph Henry Ash, an eminent Victorian, and Christabel LaMotte, an ambiguous poet of the time currently vindicated by feminists and lesbians.