A Cameo for Ukraine – excerpt from the Darcys and Lord Byron in Venice by Diana Birchall

At Austen Variations we are overjoyed that our fundraiser for Ukraine has been so wildly successful, with over $10,000 raised so far!  Our authors are offering readers cameos in their forthcoming novels, as well as signed books and other Jane Austen-related treasures, in exchange for a donation.  Here is my own first contribution, a chapter from my forthcoming novel The Darcys and Lord Byron in Venice, featuring reader and donor Michelle d’Arcy. (You’ll agree that’s a most fortuitous name to wor...