Capriccio

A young mother, snowed in during England’s worst winter for thirty years, takes her own life. The death is blamed on her husband’s mistress, Esther, a beautiful Russian-German refugee. This is her story, as it has never been told before. 

A tale of literary lovers for lovers of literature, this is the story of an obsessive love and its tragic aftermath, seen through the author’s imagination. A wealth of research supports this fictional re-creation of a scandal that rocked literary London and the world. Names have been changed to respect the wishes of the Hughes Estate.