{"product_id":"mary-book-anne-eekhout-9781782278979","title":"Mary","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA fantastically moody, unsettling novel, with a teasing, enigmatic atmosphere entirely its own\u003c\/b\u003e' SARAH WATERS\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eIntensely lyrical and powerfully haunting... Sublime storytelling and Gothic fiction at its very best!\u003c\/b\u003e' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eA novel about wild, dissident passion, the profound dislocations of grief, and the intoxication of composition\u003c\/b\u003e' NAOMI BOOTH\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eA little masterpiece of suspense-filled gothic fiction... Persuasive and mysterious\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eA beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel\u003c\/b\u003e' J.M. MIRO\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e__________\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is a beast inside her, a monster. It wants to scream, it wants to tear things apart. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1816. Mary, eighteen years old, is staying in a villa on Lake Geneva with her lover Percy Shelley. She is tormented by his infidelities; haunted by the loss of her baby daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThen one evening with friends, as storms rage outside and laudanum stirs their imaginations, Lord Byron challenges everyone to write a ghost story, and something fierce and wild awakens in Mary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMemories surface of the long, strange summer she once spent with a family in Scotland, where she found herself falling in love with the enigmatic Isabella Baxter. She learned tales of mythical beasts, witches and spirits. And she encountered real monsters - both in the rocky wilds, and far, far closer to home... \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIlluminating the past like a flash of lightning, this brilliant reimagining of the birth of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into a feverish world of waking dreams-where grief mingles with desire, and the veil between beauty and horror grows thin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e__________\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eMARY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e '\u003cb\u003eA bold new framing\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eLike reading a laudanum dream\u003c\/b\u003e' ANNIE GARTHWAITE\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eRich, intricate and beguiling, this is a novel of enormous insight, great heart and incredible skill\u003c\/b\u003e' NELL STEVENS\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eA novel that tiptoes and whispers, woos and caresses like the darkest of fairytales\u003c\/b\u003e' JOANNE BURN, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hemlock Cure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eIntensely sensual and brooding\u003c\/b\u003e' ESSIE FOX, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fascination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eLush, atmospheric, and deliciously Gothic; Eekhout brings Mary Shelley's childhood and her conception of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e to life as surely as any mad scientist \u003c\/b\u003e' C.E. MCGILL, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Hideous Progeny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eA literary creation story as bold, terrifying, and riveting as Frankenstein itself\u003c\/b\u003e' LAURIE LICO ALBANESE\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eA lyrical dream of a book that strays into the nightmarish, the gothic and the eerie with an assured elegance\u003c\/b\u003e' ELIZABETH LEE, author of \u003ci\u003eCunning Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eThis gothic, fantasy-tinged historical fiction delves into the teenage years of Mary Shelley to find the inspiration for \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eTHE BOOKSELLER\u003c\/i\u003e, Category Spotlight\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eReveals the rich inner life of one of the world's greatest creative imaginations\u003c\/b\u003e' SARA SHERIDAN\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eCreative confirmation of Shelley's position as the mother of all goth girls. A moody and evocative reveal of the backstory (behind the backstory) of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eSuitably gothic and atmospheric in tale and tone\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eMARIE CLAIRE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eA must-read\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003ei\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eA nuanced, beautifully atmospheric portrayal of a young woman's intense inner life, foreshadowing \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e's themes of grief, loneliness, and the desire for love\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eBOOKLIST\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49535758467345,"sku":"GOR013257190","price":12.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50698701177105,"sku":"NGR9781782278979","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50767634661649,"sku":"GOR014064047","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51907388342545,"sku":"GOR013396067","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1782278974.jpg?v=1777630012","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/mary-book-anne-eekhout-9781782278979","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}