Mary

'Fantastically moody' SARAH WATERS'A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel' J.M.

MIRO'Intensely lyrical and powerfully haunting' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN'Seductive and unnerving' NAOMI BOOTH'Rich, intricate and beguiling' NELL STEVENS'Like the darkest of fairytales' JOANNE BURN'Like reading a laudanum dream' ANNIE GARTHWAITE'A lyrical dream of a book' ELIZABETH LEE'As bold, terrifying and riveting as Frankenstein itself' LAURIE LICO ALBANESE'Compelling and sensitive' SARA SHERIDAN'Moody and evocative' KIRKUS__________There is a beast inside her, a monster.

It wants to scream, it wants to tear things apart. Switzerland, 1816. Mary, eighteen 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