The Nature of Monsters

The Nature of Monsters

by Clare Clark (Author)

Synopsis

It is 1718 and, in a small parish near Newcastle, Eliza Tally, a headstrong girl of sixteen, embarks on a reckless love affair that will prove her undoing. When her lover casts her off, denying their union, she is forced to travel to London, a city that attracts and alarms her in equal measure. There, she takes up a position in the house of an apothecary, Grayson Black, whom she trusts to salvage what remains of her reputation. From the highly acclaimed author of The Great Stink comes a gloriously written tale of consuming passions and obsessions. Set against the clamour and roar of eighteenth-century London, The Nature of Monsters brings vividly to life a world where the line separating science and madness is dangerously blurred, and where a single life counts for little in the relentless pursuit of progress.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 22 Feb 2007

ISBN 10: 0670915327
ISBN 13: 9780670915323

Media Reviews
'Praise for The Great Stink: 'Few can match The Great Stink's all-pervading and sublimely fetid sense of atmosphere' Observer 'One of the best British novels of 2005' Literary Review'
Author Bio
Clare Clark was born in London in 1967. Her first novel, The Great Stink, was the winner of the Pendleton May First Novel Award for 2005, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger for Best First Novel. Clare Clark is married with two children and lives in London.