The main character, Eddie (short for Edith), is a sort of British Jo March - a fiery and talented writer who cares little about the opinions of others.

Infamous is primarily about love rather than friendship, and it's about the world: art and its importance, power and who wields it, the rules society makes and who is allowed to bend or break them.Īnd it's an excellent read. In this work, however, the scope is broader and the story feels bigger than a young woman's misadventures (even though, on a literal level, that's more or less what it is). Infamous is a sort of spiritual sequel, with the same mood of twenty-first-century-sensibility-meets-Regency-style. With their first novel, Reputation, Lex Croucher wrote a regency rom com that was as much about friendship as romance and told a historically detailed story with a modern voice. Will Eddie be forced to choose between her friendship with Rose and her literary dreams––or will she be able to write her own happily ever after? But the pure hedonism and debauchery that ensues isn’t exactly what she had in mind, and Eddie soon finds herself torn between her complicated feelings for Rose and her equally complicated dynamic with Nash, whose increasingly bad behavior doesn’t match up to her vision for her literary hero. When Eddie receives an invitation to Nash's crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside, promising inspiration (and time to finish her novel, a long-held dream), she eagerly agrees. Then Eddie meets charming, renowned poet Nash Nicholson––a rival of Lord Byron, if he does say so himself––and he welcomes her into his world of eccentric artists and boundary-breaking visionaries.

Why can’t they continue as they always have? But Rose has started talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified. Twenty-two-year-old aspiring writer Edith (“Eddie”) Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together―from climbing trees and sneaking bottles of wine, to extensive kissing practice. 'Croucher infuses this energetic Regency era friends-to-lovers sapphic romance with zany wit, joie de vivre, and a distinctive literary bent.' –– Publishers Weekly

'Lex Croucher is one of my favorite rom-com authors, and they should be yours, too.' ––Casey McQuiston, #1 bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue

Named a Most Anticipated Romance of 2023 by Goodreads and Bookpage

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