Spirit of the Place

Lyndsey Lovelock, university student, writes a long study on an eighteenth century poet, Nicholas Fowler. Rod, her scientist boyfriend, longs to know what research project is taking place in Coswold, once Fowler’s home, now part of the university. In 1773, Nicholas Fowler builds a Grotto, dabbles in the new science of electricity, and believes Man is on the point of mastering Nature. What unearthly power binds them all together?