MONDAY, MAY 11 | 11:00 AM
Best-selling author Emily Franklin (The Lioness of Boston) returns to North Hill to talk about her latest book, Love and Other Monsters, the story of Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s step-sister, all but lost to history. Books will be available for sale.
During the dangerous storms of The Year Without Summer, a group of famous young writers gathered at a mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Brilliant Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her fiery fiancé Percy Shelley, the famously promiscuous Lord Byron, and John Polidori, his sexually tormented personal physician. At the group’s center was Claire Clairmont, Mary’s impressionable, clever, and dangerously loyal stepsister.
Those months of desire, betrayal, and creative passion gave the world the works of Frankenstein, the modern vampire, and the mythic image of these Romantic literary giants. In this intense and propulsive story of love, lust, art and betrayal, Claire tells her story, trying to solve the mystery of why she was all but erased from history.
