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Anne Eekhout
Gothic, fantasy-tinged historical fiction, delving back into the teenage years of Mary Shelley to find the inspiration for Frankenstein
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"A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel." -J.M. Miro, Author of the National Bestseller Ordinary Monsters
"A fantastically moody, unsettling novel."-Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying…
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There is a beast inside her, a monster. It wants to scream, it wants to tear things apart.
Mary, 18 years old, is staying in a villa on Lake Geneva…
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"A sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery, and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein"--