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William & Lucy

Michael Brown
Tarn Publishing (2011)
ISBN 9781456361433
Reviewed by Charline Ratcliff for RebeccasReads (1/12)

I literally just finished reading the fictional novel “William & Lucy” by author Michael Brown. Wow, what an amazingly well-written and moving story! Brown has taken an intriguing and unexplainable poem; written centuries ago by William Wordsworth and has used it as the foundation for an incredible book. “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” seems to be a heart wrenching poem about love found and then lost.

Who is this Lucy that Wordsworth speaks of in “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways?” Whoever she was she was important enough to Wordsworth that she merited five poems and yet we can find no trace of her in his life. This is where Michael Brown steps in with his tale “William & Lucy…”

The year is 1798 and England and France are once again at war. William Wordsworth is just twenty-eight and lamenting the fact that he seems to have lost his ability to write poetry of any substance. He is currently being investigated because there are accusations of him being a spy and collaborating with the French. He is being evicted from his residence due to his outspokenness about social and political issues. He was left an inheritance after a close friend’s passing but the money has been tied up in the courts for two years now. And…to add insult to injury he cannot find anyone to purchase his poems and so he is living practically penniless.

This is where we, the reader, meet Wordsworth and coincidentally this is also the point in his life where he meets the infamous Lucy. It was a chance and inelegant meeting to say the least but Wordsworth was drawn to her much as the moth is unwittingly drawn to the flame. He came out of their encounter with nothing to show for it except for a ruined pair of trousers and a complete and total inability to concentrate on anything at all from that point forward. Of course this overwhelming feeling was not one-sided, Lucy felt the same way, and to quote a rather memorable character: “She be doodle-headed.”

Unfortunately fate decided that it couldn’t leave well enough alone and the end result, while not unexpected, was shocking nevertheless.

In summary, a five-star read…

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