Set in a 'time of discovery, excitement, and intoxication with ideas',
this breathes the very essence of the world in which Scott lived.
Beautifully recreating the course of his life - his childhood, love of
family, literary success, encounters with Wordsworth and Lord Byron, and
later tragedies and financial disasters, Oliver brings to vivid life all
the spontaneity and genius of this 'mighty magician who rolled back the
current of time'.