This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award. When Chaucer composed
Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of
the most captivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow, Lavinia Greenla
w's new work, takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh tell
ing of this most tortured of love affairs.