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Love & Other Monsters: A Novel
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In the stormy, scandalous summer of 1816, daring eighteenyearold Claire Clairmont changed the course of literature forever. But thenunlike her stepsister Mary Shelleyshe was forgotten, until now.During the dangerous storms of The Year Without Summer, a group of famous young writers gathered at a mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Brilliant Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her fiery fianc Percy Shelley, the famously promiscuous Lord Byron, and John Polidori, his sexually tormented personal physician. At the groups center was Claire Clairmont, Marys impressionable, clever, and dangerously loyal stepsister.Those months of desire, betrayal, and creative passion gave the world the works of Frankenstein, the modern vampire, and the mythic image of these Romantic literary giants. In this intense and propulsive story of love, lust, art and betrayal Claire tells her story, trying to solve the mystery of why she was all but erased from history.Claireherself a writeris desperate to free herself from the uncomfortable role she plays in her sisters marriage in London. Fueled by Jane Austins romantic novels, and believing love offers freedom, Claire begins an affair with celebrity Lord Byron and convinces Mary and Shelley to follow him to Switzerland.With the threat of paparazzi lurking nearby, Claires intimate connection to each member of the celebrity group grows more complex. Her journey of selfdiscovery leads her to document everyones secrets in her journal, and when climate disaster causes food shortages, Claire learns to forage, determined to prove her worth in a world built by and created for men.The real Claire Clairmont poured her love, life, and razorsharp wit into her pages, yet her journal from 1816 is curiously missing and each member of the group had a reason to take it.With searing relevance to our here and nowof celebrity worship, climate disaster, of complicated femininity, Love & Other Monsters is the untold origin story of Frankenstein, a feminist reckoning of sisters, survival, and the creation of monstersboth those on the page and those who walk among us.
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