Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein

"A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel, Anne Eekhout's Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley back to life with a brilliant intensity. This is a marvelous book about desire, and love, and the dark mysteries of the creative act."

— J.M. Miro, author of the National Bestseller Ordinary Monsters

 

“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

 

"Rich, intricate and beguiling, this is a novel of enormous insight, great heart and incredible skill. Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein has so much to tell us about grief, fear, love and imagination. I will return to it often."   

— Nell Stevens, author of Briefly, A Delicious Life

 

“Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein is a nuanced, beautifully atmospheric portrayal of a young woman’s intense inner life, foreshadowing Frankenstein's themes of grief, loneliness, and the desire for love.   

— Booklist

 

"A novel that tiptoes and whispers, woos and caresses like the darkest of fairytales. Laudanum and love, wild imaginations and haunted hearts; I was bewitched by this profound and pleasurable imagining of Mary Shelley and the Birth of Frankenstein"   

— Joanne Burn, author of The Hemlock Cure