Title: The nature of monsters
Description: It is 1718 and, in a small parish near Newcastle, Eliza Tally, a headstrong girl of 15, 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Historical fiction, Pharmacists, Women household employees, Pregnant women, Drugstores, History, Literature, Social conditions, Teenage girls, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Secrets, English Historical mystery fiction, Pregnant teenagers, Ethics, Booksellers, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general
Places: London (England), England, London
Time periods: 18th century