{"product_id":"9781405949002","title":"Love, Sex \u0026 Frankenstein","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the shadowed halls of Villa Diodati, Mary Shelley's fury took shape - and birthed a monster...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe thrilling retelling from the author of PRIZE WOMEN, THE METAL HEART and THE GLASS WOMAN. Perfect for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Manningtree Witches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Hauntingly beautiful, dangerous and magnificent' Anya Bergman, author of The Witches of Vardo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A deliciously dark reimagining of the birth of literature's greatest monster' Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Richly woven, gorgeously addictive, this is a true Gothic novel about life, death, desire, fury and passion' Joanne Burn, author of The Bone Hunters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVilla Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe dark summer that birthed a monster . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTormented by Shelley's betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby and suspicious of her sister's intentions, Mary seeks sanctuary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Lord Byron's villa, lying under ominous, ash-shrouded skies, feels more like a trap. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Byron suggests each guest write a supernatural tale, Mary is as drawn to the challenge as she is, unexpectedly, to Byron himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so an idea begins to form in her mind . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt spills out of her in thick, black ink. A thing given life is before her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDay and night, she is possessed. Heart and mind. Body and soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut is she in control, or is it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR LOVE, SEX \u0026amp; FRANKENSTEIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Fury and passion, obsession and revenge sizzle beneath the surface as out-of-this-world prose spins the book to a powerful, sensual grand finale. What a firecracker of a story - it completely swept me off my feet!' Fiza Saeed McLynn, author of The Midnight Carousel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'You cannot help but fall in love with Mary, whose journey as an artist and as a woman is both absolutely heartbreaking and truly inspiring. This is a deeply moving, magical book from a consummate storyteller' Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautifully written and wonderfully intense, this is no glamorous story of the rock star poets and their female muses but a rendition of absolute powerlessness turned around through sheer force of will' Elizabeth Fremantle, author of Disobedient\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48875850629355,"sku":"EB_LI0700_B04-02_SIMS","price":22.89,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781405949002","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}