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Love, Sex, and Frankenstein
A Historical Fiction Novel by Caroline Lea
Subgenres:
- Feminist Retelling,
- Biographical Fiction,
- Gothic
This book is for you if you're into...
- Feminist retellings of literary legends with creative obsession
- Gothic atmospheres fueled by scandal, betrayal, and desire
From Little Stack
This is the story of the birth of Frankenstein. Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. During a dark summer storm, eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, her lover Percey Shelley, and her sister, Claire Clairmont, are taking refuge at Lord Byron’s villa. He challenges them all to write a supernatural story and Mary takes up the challenge. Haunted by the loss of her first child, tormented by her husband’s betrayals and suspicious of her sister, she locks herself away and begins to write.
The story spills out of her like she is possessed. It’s almost like madness. The summer storm feels like another character, raging outside as Mary brings her terrifying creature to life on the page. This is the perfect read for those who want something darker that still gives summer vibes.
An evocative, haunting retelling of the summer that should have broken Mary Shelley, but instead inspired her to write her masterpiece.
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.
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