Childish loves - Benjamin Markovits

When the narrator of Childish
Loves inherits a colleague Peter's writings on Lord Byron, he finds himself acting as a literary
sleuth. Sorting through boxes of manuscripts he reads between the
lines of these scandalous, Byron-inspired stories, meets with the Society
for the Publication of the Dead, and tracks down people from Peter's
past in an effort to untangle rumour from reality. In the process, he
crafts a masterful story-within-a-story that turns on uncomfortable
questions about childhood and sexual awakening, innocence and
attraction, while exploring the lives of three very different writers
and their brushes with success and failure in both literature and life.