From Stephanie Hemphill, author of the Printz Honor winner Your Own,
Sylvia and the acclaimed novel Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem
Witch Trials, comes the fascinating story of gothic novelist Mary
Shelley, most famous for the classic Frankenstein.
An all-consuming love affair with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a
family torn apart by scandal, a young author on the brink of greatness:
Hideous Love is the story of the mastermind behind one of the most
iconic figures in all of literature, a monster constructed out of dead
bodies and brought to life by the tragic Dr. Frankenstein.
This luminous verse novel reveals how Mary Shelley became one of the
most celebrated authors in history.