After the Sickness has killed off her parents and the bombs have fallen
on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the arctic vault which has
kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone
she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world.
Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging and learning the contours
of this familiar land made new. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to
rebuild a life.
Until, one day, she finds a girl: feral and ready to be taught all that
Monster knows. Changing her own name to Mother, Monster names the child
after herself. As young Monster learns from Mother, she also discovers
her own desires, realising that she wants very different things to the
woman who made but did not create her.
Inspired by Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein, My Name Is Monster
is a novel about power, about the things that society leaves imprinted
on us when the rules no longer apply and about the strength and the
danger of a mother's love.
