A thing of beauty is a great temptation. It's the summer of 1858 and everyone who can has fled London. As a foul miasma hangs over the capital, Sir Edwin Landseer is toiling at a fever pitch. Because England needs lions , England expects lions, and fifteen years to finish a monument like Nelson's column is a disgrace . But as lions stalk the sculptor's alcohol-fuelled nightmares, his dreams travel to the past. No longer an old man losing his grip on reality, his thoughts turn to the waning Regen