Shortlisted for the Saltire Society SCOTTISH FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR
2014 Following in the tradition of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
and Valerie Martin's Mary Reilly, THE MONSTER'S WIFE is a literary
gothic that re-envisions the classic Mary Shelley novel
Frankenstein from the perspective of the girl Victor Frankenstein
transformed into a Bride for his monster. To a tiny island in
Orkney, peopled by a devout community of twenty, comes Victor
Frankenstein, driven there by a Devil's bargain: to make a wife for
the Creature who is stalking him across Europe. In this
darkly-wrought answer to Frankenstein, we hear the untold tale of
the monster's wife through the perspective of the doctor's
housemaid. Oona works below stairs with her best friend May,
washing the doctor's linens and keeping the fires lit at the Big
House. An orphan whose only legacy is the illness that killed her
mother, Oona knows she is doomed. But she is also thirsty for
knowledge, determined to know life fully before it slips away. As
tensions heighten between Victor and the islanders, Oona becomes
the doctor's trusted accomplice, aiding in secret experiments and
seeing horrors she sometimes wishes to forget. When May disappears,
Oona must face up to growing suspicions about the enigmatic
employer to whom she has grown close - but the truth is darker than
anything she could imagine.
General
Imprint: |
Barbican Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2014 |
Authors: |
Kate Horsley
|
Dimensions: |
155 x 229 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-909954-05-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-909954-05-5 |
Barcode: |
9781909954052 |
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