"Captures all the bliss and folly of Mary Shelley's disastrous surrender to love, and the sorrowful steps by which she became the author of FRANKENSTEIN." -- NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In 1814, poet Percy Shelley enters the life of young Mary Godwin like an angel of deliverance...
Veronica Bennett's lush reimagining of the life of Mary Shelley -- on the eve of her authorship of the classic gothic novel Frankenstein -- is a gripping story of love and obsession. In the spring of 1814, poet Percy Shelley enters the life of young Mary Godwin like an angel...