In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer Will lam Blake works in obscurity. Next door, country boy Jem Kellaway moves in and strikes up a tentative friendship with street-savvy Maggie Butterfield. While England is rocked by the waves of the French Revolution, the two children navigate the confusing and exhilarating path to adolescence. Their lives intertwine with Blake`s and inspire him in this brilliantly rendered historical tale.