' A fantastically moody, unsettling novel, with a teasing, enigmatic atmosphere entirely its own ' SARAH WATERS ' Intensely lyrical and powerfully haunting... Sublime storytelling and Gothic fiction at its very best! ' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN ' A novel about wild, dissident passion, the profound dislocations of grief, and the intoxication of composition ' NAOMI BOOTH ' A little masterpiece of suspense-filled gothic fiction... Persuasive and mysterious ' FINANCIAL TIMES ' A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel ' J.M. ...
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' A fantastically moody, unsettling novel, with a teasing, enigmatic atmosphere entirely its own ' SARAH WATERS ' Intensely lyrical and powerfully haunting... Sublime storytelling and Gothic fiction at its very best! ' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN ' A novel about wild, dissident passion, the profound dislocations of grief, and the intoxication of composition ' NAOMI BOOTH ' A little masterpiece of suspense-filled gothic fiction... Persuasive and mysterious ' FINANCIAL TIMES ' A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel ' J.M. MIRO __________ There is a beast inside her, a monster. It wants to scream, it wants to tear things apart. 1816. Mary, eighteen years old, is staying in a villa on Lake Geneva with her lover Percy Shelley. She is tormented by his infidelities; haunted by the loss of her baby daughter. Then one evening with friends, as storms rage outside and laudanum stirs their imaginations, Lord Byron challenges everyone to write a ghost story, and something fierce and wild awakens in Mary. Memories surface of the long, strange summer she once spent with a family in Scotland, where she found herself falling in love with the enigmatic Isabella Baxter. She learned tales of mythical beasts, witches and spirits. And she encountered real monsters - both in the rocky wilds, and far, far closer to home... Illuminating the past like a flash of lightning, this brilliant reimagining of the birth of Frankenstein takes us into a feverish world of waking dreams-where grief mingles with desire, and the veil between beauty and horror grows thin. __________ PRAISE FOR MARY ' A bold new framing ' NEW YORKER ' Like reading a laudanum dream ' ANNIE GARTHWAITE ' Rich, intricate and beguiling, this is a novel of enormous insight, great heart and incredible skill ' NELL STEVENS ' A novel that tiptoes and whispers, woos and caresses like the darkest of fairytales ' JOANNE BURN, author of The Hemlock Cure ' Intensely sensual and brooding ' ESSIE FOX, author of The Fascination ' Lush, atmospheric, and deliciously Gothic; Eekhout brings Mary Shelley's childhood and her conception of Frankenstein to life as surely as any mad scientist ' C.E. MCGILL, author of Our Hideous Progeny ' A literary creation story as bold, terrifying, and riveting as Frankenstein itself ' LAURIE LICO ALBANESE ' A lyrical dream of a book that strays into the nightmarish, the gothic and the eerie with an assured elegance ' ELIZABETH LEE, author of Cunning Women ' This gothic, fantasy-tinged historical fiction delves into the teenage years of Mary Shelley to find the inspiration for Frankenstein ' THE BOOKSELLER , Category Spotlight ' Reveals the rich inner life of one of the world's greatest creative imaginations ' SARA SHERIDAN ' Creative confirmation of Shelley's position as the mother of all goth girls. A moody and evocative reveal of the backstory (behind the backstory) of Frankenstein ' KIRKUS ' Suitably gothic and atmospheric in tale and tone ' MARIE CLAIRE ' A must-read ' i ' A nuanced, beautifully atmospheric portrayal of a young woman's intense inner life, foreshadowing Frankenstein 's themes of grief, loneliness, and the desire for love ' BOOKLIST
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