The year is 1839, and Mary Shelley - the woman who wrote Frankenstein - is living alone in a tiny cottage on the banks of the river Thames in Putney. As she sorts through the snowstorm of her husbands scattered papers she is reminded of their past: the half-ruined villas in Italy, the stormy relationship with Shelley and her stepsister Claire, the loss of her children, the attempted kidnapping of Claires daughter Allegra from a prison-like convent in Florence. And finally, her husbands drowning on the Gulf of Spezia as they stayed in a grim-looking fortress overlooking the sea. What she has never confided in anyone is that she has always been haunted by Shelleys drowned first wife, Harriet, who would come to visit her in the night as she slept with her two tiny children in a vast abandoned villa while Shelley was away litigating with lawyers. Did Mary pay the ultimate price for loving Shelley?Who will Harriet come for next?
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Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 25 Jul 2019
Publisher: Fledgling Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781912280261
About Alex Nye
Alex Nye is an award-winning childrens author. She grew up in Norfolk by the sea but has lived in Scotland since 1995 where she finds much of her inspiration in Scottish history. At the age of 16 she won the W H Smith Young Writers Award out of 33000 entrants and has been writing ever since. Her first childrens novel CHILL won the Scottish Childrens Book of the Year Award. She likes to spend her time walking her dog swimming scribbling in notebooks and tapping away on her laptop. She also teaches and delivers workshops on creative writing/ghost stories/Scottish history. She graduated from Kings College London more years ago than she cares to admit. Arguing with the Dead is Alexs second historical novel for adults following the critically acclaimed For My Sins.