{"product_id":"love-other-monsters-9781567928556","title":"Love \u0026 Other Monsters by Franklin, Emily","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the summer of 1816, Claire Clairmont set in motion a gathering of extraordinary writers. Claire wanted love, importance, and a life touched by greatness. Around her, genius, desire, and arrogance created monsters--and revealed the ones already in the room.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing her national bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Lioness of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e, Emily Franklin once again brings a woman and her world vividly to life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTheirs was a world that seemed to tilt toward darkness that summer long ago. Frost fell in July. Crops failed. Hunger spread. Mary Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Byron's physician John Polidori, and Claire Clairmont sheltered through the wild weather. \u003cbr\u003eThey were young, beautiful, reckless--and watched from across Lake Geneva by a public hungry for celebrity scandal. Out of that season would come \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, the modern vampire story, and myths of Romantic genius. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThey were also people stuck in a house: desiring, competing, seducing, betraying, writing, watching one another, hungry for whatever they could use, and turning private damage into art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the while, Claire kept a journal, recording the vanity, sexual rivalries, sisterly wounds, and secret pregnancy. Then the journal disappeared--and more than one person had reason to want it gone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDecades later, when the lost journal returns, she must face the ghost of the girl she was--the girl who believed the stories men told her, and the still more dangerous story she told herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeductive, atmospheric, and haunted, \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Other Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the human world from which \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e emerged: literary historical fiction alive with art, appetite, celebrity, betrayal, and one young woman's unforgettable voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e David R. Godine Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781567928556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/09\/2026 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Franklin\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lioness of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, and more than other twenty books. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of the American Medical Association\u003c\/i\u003e, read aloud on National Public Radio, named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries, and longlisted for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Short Story Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David R. Godine Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67599947235481,"sku":"9781567928556","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0572\/3367\/0297\/files\/9781567928556.jpg?v=1790889469","url":"https:\/\/bookmarksretail.store\/products\/love-other-monsters-9781567928556","provider":"Bookmarks Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}