Emily Franklin

Love & Other Monsters

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Produktbeschreibung

All love stories are ghost stories waiting to happen... Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet meets Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice in this intense and propulsive story of love, lust, art and betrayal, based on the important--and forgotten--life of eighteen-year-old Claire Clairmont. In the bizarrely cold, scandalous summer of 1816, a group of famous young writers gathered at a mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Brilliant Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, her fiery fiancé Percy Shelly, the famously promiscuous Lord Byron, and his sexually tormented personal physician all sheltered together during the storms of what would become known as The Year Without Summer. But they were not alone. Claire Clairmont, Mary's impressionable, clever, and dangerously loyal step-sister joined them. That summer of desire, betrayal, and creative passion gave the world the works of Frankenstein, the modern vampire legend, and the mythic image of these Romantic literary giants. > > Love and Other Monsters offers a deep look into the loyalty of siblings, the commitment required to make meaningful art, the role of fame, and the creation of monsters--both those on the page and those who walk among us. Claire Clairmont poured her love, life and razor-sharp wit into the pages of her now-missing journal, a document which everyone present had reason to destroy in order to protect themselves. Now Claire, all but forgotten in her famous sister's shadow, will tell her story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: David R. Godine Publisher
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
• ISBN-13: 9781567928556
• ISBN-10: 1567928552
• Artikelnr.: 73930255

Autorenporträt

Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, and more than twenty other books including a poetry collection, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among many other places, as well as featured and read aloud on National Public Radio, and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Her next novel, Love and Other Monsters, will be published in April 2026.