Mary

'A fantastically moody, unsettling novel, with a teasing, enigmatic atmosphere entirely its own' - Sarah Waters

'Mary imagines, with spell-binding vividness, the forbidden desires and creative inspirations that fuelled Mary Shelley's writing. This is a novel about wild, dissident passion, the profound dislocations of grief, and the intoxication of composition. Eekhout's writing is charged with sensual power: the result is a seductive and unnerving account of Mary's most intimate experiences' - Naomi Booth

'A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel, which brings Mary Shelley back to life with a brilliant intensity. This is a marvellous book about desire, and love, and the dark mysteries of the creative act' - J.M. Miro, author of Ordinary Monsters

'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

'Like reading a laudanum dream... Both the language and narrative of Anne Eekhout's book have a hallucinatory quality that encourages us to question everything and doubt everyone. The sense of danger, of violence at the hands of man or monsters, is imbued in every sentence. It brought me to a world where the old certainties of society, convention and religion have been stripped away, and where women like Mary Shelley, though unsure of her steps and uncertain of her fellows, found the courage to live and create' - Annie Garthwaite