Love, Sex & Frankenstein

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1816, Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva.

A summer storm is brewing.

Mary Shelley, eighteen-years-old, has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Mary is tormented by Shelley's infidelities, haunted by the loss of their baby daughter and suspicious of her sister's intentions.

Geneva promises a new start.

But far from being a refuge, the summer is freakishly cold and stormy, skies shrouded with volcanic ash. Locked in a villa with Shelley, her infuriating sister, and the infamous Lord Byron, madness takes root indoors. Haunted by repressed desires and the spectres of their pasts, Byron suggests each write a supernatural tale.

Mary has an idea . . . From her fervour, the tale of Frankenstein is born.

In this hauntingly evocative feminist retelling, Caroline Lea delves into the female rage, creative madness and steamy scandal that bore the world's most famous work of gothic fiction. Perfect for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Manningtree Witches.