Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein

Anne Eekhout is the author of the novels Dogma, which was nominated for the Bronzen Uil Prize for best debut; One Night, which was nominated for the BNG Literature Prize; and Nicolas and the Disappearance of the World, which was selected as the Best Book for Young Adults. She lives in the Netherlands.

"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

"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

"Intensely lyrical and powerfully haunting... Sublime storytelling and Gothic fiction at its very best!" - Susan Stokes-Chapman, Author of Pandora

"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

"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

"Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein will appeal to all fans of Mary Shelley and stands equally strong as a fine piece of historical fiction." - Bookreporter.com