Title: The Nature of Monsters
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.
Subjects: Women household employees, Fiction, Pregnant women, Pharmacists, Large type books, Teenage girls, History, Human experimentation in medicine, Social conditions, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological