Lucius Falkland’s poems chart an affair between two traditionalists who deeply cherish their dying England. Adrift in a sea of conformity, each find their ontological double; their very selves embodied in another. Devoted and plagued with guilt, this volume of poetry follows their life-changing relationship, exploring adultery, heresy, depression, mid-life crisis and the power of shared delusion when the world tells two people that they are “different.”

Falkland’s poems reveal a couple torn between their sacred commitments and their overwhelming feelings for each other, caught between the banal, materialistic realities of life in modernity, and their fantasy of being eternally together in an unchanging, rural England.