Mary (eBook)

or, the Birth of Frankenstein

Anne Eekhout (Autor)

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2023
352 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-898-6 (ISBN)

Infos

'Fantastically moody' SARAH WATERS'A little masterpiece of suspense-filled gothic fiction... Persuasive and mysterious' FINANCIAL TIMES'A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel' J.M. MIRO'Atmospheric... A must-read' i'Intensely lyrical and powerfully haunting' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN'Moody and evocative' KIRKUS'Seductive and unnerving' NAOMI BOOTH
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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.

Autor

Anne Eekhout is an award-winning Dutch novelist. Mary; or, the Birth of Frankenstein was inspired by the teenage years of Mary Shelley, and is the first of Anne's novels to be published in English. It is currently being translated into 14 languages.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2023
• Übersetzer: Laura Watkinson
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1816 • Angela Carter • Byron • Contemporary Gothic • cunning women • Daphne du Maurier • Dutch novel • Elizabeth Lee • Emily Bronte • Erin Morgenstern • Feminist avant la lettre • Ghost Stories • Gothic • Gothic novel • historical fiction based on real events • historical love story • J.M. Miro • Joanne Burn • Julia Armfield • LGBTQ+ • literary fiction • Literary Historical Fiction • Literary Horror • Lord Byron • magic novel • Mary Shelley • melmoth • Michelle Paver • motherhood novels • Mystery • Naomi Booth • Ordinary Monsters • Our Wives Under the Sea • Poor Things • psychological horror • Romance • Sapphic • sarah perry • Sarah Waters • Sara Sheridan • shirley jackson • sophisticated historical fiction • Suspense • the essex serpent • the fair botanists • The Hemlock Cure • weird ficion • Weird Fiction • Witcherature • witch novel • year without summer
• ISBN-10: 1-78227-898-2 / 1782278982
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78227-898-6 / 9781782278986