- Title:
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Mary; or, the Birth of Frankenstein (MP3)
- Written by:
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Anne Eekhout
- Read by:
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Anna Burnett
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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9 hours 20 minutes
- MP3 size:
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406 MB
- Published:
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February 28 2024
- Available Date:
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February 28 2024
- Age Category:
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Adult - Explicit
- ISBN:
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9781038660350
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical; Historical Fiction; Romance
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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An intensely gripping reimagining of Mary Shelley’s youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.
There is a beast inside her, a monster. It wants to scream, it wants to tear things apart.
1816. Mary, 18 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.
Then 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.
Memories 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 ...
WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT
'A fantastically moody, unsettling novel, with a teasing, enigmatic atmosphere entirely its own.'
Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests and Fingersmith
'A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel, which brings Mary Shelley back to life with a brilliant intensity.'
J.M. Miro, author of Ordinary Monsters
'I was bewitched by this profound and pleasurable imagining of Mary Shelley and the birth of Frankenstein.'
Joanne Burn, author of The Hemlock Cure
'Rich, intricate and beguiling, this is a novel of enormous insight, great heart and incredible skill. Mary has so much to tell us about grief, fear, love and imagination.'
Nell Stevens, author of Briefly, A Delicious Life