The nature of monsters
By: Clare Clark
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9781846178771
Subjects: Teenage girls; Fiction; History; Pharmacists; Human experimentation in medicine; Social conditions
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: London: Viking.