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|title=The Sonnet Lover

|sort=Sonnet Lover

|date=July 2007

|isbn=978-0749938314

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Dr Rose Asher is a lecturer in comparative literature at New York's Hudson University. She specialises in sonnets and in particular, Shakespeare's sonnets. She's in a relationship with the college's President, Mark Abrams, but they are keeping their affair under wraps until she makes tenure - in a small, competitive and nepotistic world such as theirs, it's for the best, Mark says. Almost twenty years ago, as an undergraduate, Rose had spent a summer in Tuscany at La Civetta, a villa long associated with the Hudon's summer schools and which, along with its rich collection of documents and art works, is willed to the college on the death of is current owner, Cyril Graham. While there, Rose had a passionate affair with a married tutor. She's never returned.