Charlie Lovett

After the death of his wife, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, opens an eighteenth-century study on Shakespeare forgeries. He is shocked to find a Victorian portrait strikingly similar to his wife tumble out of its pages, and becomes obsessed with tracking down its origins. As he follows the trail back to the nineteenth century, Peter unearths a book that might prove that Shakespeare was indeed the author of all his plays.

When book lover and Jane Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood starts her new job at an antiquarian bookshop in London, she is drawn into a web of mystery surrounding the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice, with ultimately dangerous consequences.