The Calligrapher
by
Edward Docx

Published
January 2010
Publishers
UK
Fourth Estate
US
Houghton Mifflin
France
Plon Italy: Mondadori
Germany
Lubbe
Lithuania
Alma Littera
Russia
Red Fish
Spain
Santillana
Jasper is a young man who loves women so much he finds it difficult to restrict himself to only one at a time. But, when one of his regulars discovers that he is playing the field, she dumps him and begins to plot an appropriate revenge. This clever story is set against Jasper's profession as a calligrapher and in particular his current major commission, to prepare a special edition of the love poems of John Donne. As Donne's incandescent poetry illuminates events in Jasper's life he truly and painfully falls in love for the first time...