Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein: A Novel

“A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel.” –J.M. Miro, Author of the National Bestseller Ordinary Monsters

“A fantastically moody, unsettling novel."–Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests and Fingersmith

A "bold ... hypnotic" (The New Yorker) reimagining of Mary Shelley’s youth, this historical novel vividly explores innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.

Switzerland, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indones...