Mary

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Fantastically moody' SARAH WATERS '

A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel' J.M. MIRO '

Intensely lyrical and powerfully haunting' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN '

Seductive and unnerving' NAOMI BOOTH '

Rich, intricate and beguiling' NELL STEVENS '

Like the darkest of fairytales' JOANNE BURN '

Like reading a laudanum dream' ANNIE GARTHWAITE '

A lyrical dream of a book' ELIZABETH LEE '

As bold, terrifying and riveting as

Frankenstein itself' LAURIE LICO ALBANESE '

Compelling and sensitive' SARA SHERIDAN '

Moody and evocative'

KIRKUS __________There is a beast inside her, a monster. It wants to scream, it wants to tear things apart.Switzerland, 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.