Description
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 -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 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 so an idea begins to form in her mind . . . It spills out of her in thick, black ink. A thing given life by her and night, it possesses her. Her heart, her 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.
Author: Caroline Lea
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 10/7/2025
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.2 lbs
Size: 9.1″ H x 6.3″ L x 1.3″ W
ISBN: 9781639369690
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