For the first time ever in 400 years, an author has dared to take on the voice of the world's most famous playwright. Christopher Rush's novel takes as its dramatic theme the deathbed meeting between William Shakespeare and his lawyer, as they meet to set out his final will and testament. As he answers his lawyer's questions, the Bard begins to recall his life, and over 448 pages of tumultuous, passionate and glorious writing the true life of an extraordinary man emerges. This is Shakespeare as we have never been able to know him: angry, emotional, honest, reflective, joyous, despairing - we will never think of him in the same way ever again.