Victoria Shorr: MIDNIGHT W43 [2019] hardback ZCLAS 'One photograph

'One photograph

All that beauty

of political executions and secret police

Patience is an indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love story

or want to eat

Victoria Shorr: MIDNIGHT W43 [2019] hardback ZCLAS 'One photographWhen Jane Austen's father deeded the family home to her brother, Jane was tossed to the winds, no money to her name, probably too old to be wed. At this bleak moment, she receives a proposal of marriage from a rich but boring man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision: between financial security and her writing career. When sixteen year old Mary Godwin eloped to France with Percy Bysshe Shelley, she was already pregnant. Midnight finds her