This paperback book is in excellant condition I can combine postage with other books I am selling.

Ophelis's Fan - By Christine Balint. A Story about Shakespeare and love.

Born in Country Clare, Ireland, brought up on Lamb's shakespeare, lime sherbert sweets and the golden dust of fairy's wings, young Harriet Smithson's imagination promises the world in a bubble. A child of the stage, her inheritance is Drury Lane, London, the Green Room and the rough magic of the theatre. Paris: September 1827. With the arrival of Chiles kemble's English acting troupe, the Odeon Theatre is awash with melodrama and the music of Shakespeare. Harriet Smithson is Ophelia. The French Romantics swoon, tragic stops and the high society femmes plait straw in their hair in honour of Harriet's performance. The young composer, Hector Berlioz, Falls in love.