Love, Sex, and Frankenstein - Hardcover

Name: Love, Sex, and Frankenstein - Hardcover
Brand: BooksCloud
SKU: 9781639369690
Price: 27.95 USD
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by Caroline Lea

$27.95

Book Overview

An evocative, haunting retelling of the summer that should have broken Mary Shelley, but instead inspired her to write her masterpiece.

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice

Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816: the dark summer that birthed a monster.

Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley's betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby, and suspicious of her sister's intentions, Mary seeks a refuge.

But Lord Byron's villa, lying under ominous, ash-shrouded skies, feels more like a trap. When Byron suggests each guest write a supernatural tale, Mary is as drawn to the challenge as she is, unexpectedly, to Byron himself.

And so an idea begins to form in her mind . . . It spills out of her in thick, black ink. A thing given life by her imagination.

Day and night, it possesses her. Her heart, her desires.

But is she in control, or is it?

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.

ISBN	9781639369690
Author	Caroline Lea
Publisher	Pegasus Books
Genre	Literature
Format	Hardcover
Published	October 2025
Language	ENG- English
Pages	400
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print