Now in paperback comes this hugely successful novel from the author of My Father Had a Daughter which charts the life of the world's most famous playwright. Will has left Stratford for London and pitched himself headlong into the chaotic, perilous world of the theatre. Through raw will - and an amazing gift for words - he raises himself from poor player to master playwright. But as his success earns him great pleasure and adoration from others, it also draws the jealous wrath of Christopher Marlowe, a baby-faced genius whose revenge is as bitter as his poetry is sweet...