Love & Other Monsters: A Novel

In the summer of 1816, Claire Clairmont set in motion a gathering of extraordinary writers. Claire wanted love, importance, and a life touched by greatness. Around her, genius, desire, and arrogance created monsters—and revealed the ones already in the room.

Following her national bestseller The Lioness of Boston, Emily Franklin once again brings a woman and her world vividly to life.

Theirs was a world that seemed to tilt toward darkness that summer long ago. Frost fell in July. Crops fail...