The Intoxicating Mr. Lavelle is a novel by Neil Blackmore that tells the story of a well-to-do Englishman called Benjamin Bowen who undertakes a grand tour of Europe in the 1760s with his brother Edgar. While there, he meets an exotic foreigner called Horace Lavelle. They engage in a torrid love affair, which has some very intense and unintended consequences.
In this review, Andrew Whiteside talks with Chelsea Adams from The Alphabet Book Club. They share their thoughts on this wonderful novel.
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