Love, Sex & Frankenstein by Caroline Lea games Keough’s portrait of her mother

Keough’s portrait of her mother in her final months is especially indelible’ – Washington Post

PaperbackPublication: 3 Nov 2011

'Miranda's account of slowly letting her guard down and being vulnerable is sweet and moving

William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies was rescued from a 'slush pile' of unsolicited manuscripts by Charles Monteith

Love, Sex & Frankenstein by Caroline Lea games Keough’s portrait of her motherVilla Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. The dark summer that birthed a monster . . . Eighteen year old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelleys betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby and suspicious of her sisters intentions, Mary seeks sanctuary. But Lord Byrons villa, lying under ominous, ash shrouded skies, feels more like a trap. When Byron suggests each guest write a supernatural