{"product_id":"mary-or-the-birth-of-frankenstein","title":"Mary or, The Birth of Frankenstein","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fantastically moody, unsettling novel, with a teasing, enigmatic atmosphere entirely its own\u003c\/strong\u003e SARAH WATERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntensely lyrical and powerfully hauntingĶ Sublime storytelling and Gothic fiction at its very best!\u003c\/strong\u003e SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA novel about wild, dissident passion, the profound dislocations of grief, and the intoxication of composition\u003c\/strong\u003e NAOMI BOOTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel\u003c\/strong\u003e J.M. MIRO\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e__________\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere is a beast inside her, a monster. It wants to scream, it wants to tear things apart.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1816. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMemories 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...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIlluminating the past like a flash of lightning, this brilliant reimagining of the birth of \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e takes us into a feverish world of waking dreams-where grief mingles with desire, and the veil between beauty and horror grows thin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e__________\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR FOR MARY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLike reading a laudanum dram\u003c\/strong\u003e ANNIE GARTHWAITE, author of \u003cem\u003eCecily\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRich, intricate and beguiling, this is a novel of enormous insight, great heart and incredible skill\u003c\/strong\u003e NELL STEVENS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA novel that tiptoes and whispers, woos and caresses like the darkest of fairytales\u003c\/strong\u003e JOANNE BURN, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hemlock Cure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA literary creation story as bold, terrifying, and riveting as \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e itself LAURIE LICO ALBANESE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lyrical dream of a book that strays into the nightmarish, the gothic and the eerie with an assured elegance\u003c\/strong\u003e ELIZABETH LEE, author of \u003cem\u003eCunning Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMary\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the rich inner life of one of the worlds greatest creative imaginations Sarah Sheridan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCreative confirmation of Shelleys position as the mother of all goth girls. A moody and evocative reveal of the backstory (behind the backstory) of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eKIRKUS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA nuanced, beautifully atmospheric portrayal of a young womans intense inner life, foreshadowing \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003es themes of grief, loneliness, and the desire for love\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eBOOKLIST\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264087474470,"sku":"mary-or-the-birth-of-frankenstein","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/404e8115-01cb-43ce-b8a2-b5de593f10fa.jpg?v=1701428943","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/mary-or-the-birth-of-frankenstein","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}