num_pages: 234
description: Veronica Bennett’s lush reimagining of the life of Mary Shelley — on the eve of her authorship of the classic gothic novel  Frankenstein  — is a gripping story of love and obsession.In the spring of 1814, poet Percy Shelley enters the life of young Mary Godwin like an angel of deliverance. Seduced by his radical and romantic ideas, she flees with him and her stepsister to Europe, where they forge a hardscrabble life while mingling with other free-spirited artists and poets. Frowned on by family and society, persecuted by gossip, and plagued by jealousy, Mary becomes haunted by freakish imaginings and hideous visions. As tragedy strikes, not once but time and again, Mary begins to realize that her dreams have become nightmares, and her angel . . . a monster. Now the time has finally come for the young woman who would become Mary Shelley to set her monster free.
language: English
title: Angelmonster
titlecomplete: Angelmonster
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, British Literature, Teen, Young Adult Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy
ratings_count: 390
publisher: Candlewick Press