In late October 1820, having sailed to Italy in the hope the warmer climate would improve his failing health, John Keats had to endure 10 days' strict quarantine in the Bay of Naples before being allowed to disembark. Those ten days provide a timescale and one half of this narrative in which Keats looks back on his life, his development as a poet, and the tragic love relationship with his nineteen year old fiancee Fanny Brawne. A second timescale, and the other half of the narrative, follows her interminably slow six weeks spent in Wentworth Place, Hampstead, waiting for news of Keats. During...