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SUMMARY:Emily Franklin presents Love & Other Monsters
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Emily Franklin visits Gibson's Bookstore t
 o share her latest novel\, Love & Other Monsters. From the Bestselling A
 uthor of The Lioness of Boston comes Love & Other Monsters\, a story of 
 love\, lust\, art\, and betrayal set in the scandalous summer of 1816 wh
 en 18-year-old Claire Clairmont—Mary Shelley’s stepsister and Lord Byron
 ’s lover—changed the course of literature forever... and then was erased
 . Emily Franklin once again brings a woman and her world vividly to life
 . Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet meets Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice in thi
 s intense and propulsive story of love\, lust\, art and betrayal\, based
  on the important—and forgotten—real life of eighteen-year-old Claire Cl
 airmont who changed the course of literature forever. During the dangero
 us storms of The Year Without Summer\, a group of famous young writers g
 athered at a mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva\, Switzerland. Brillia
 nt Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley\, her fiery fiancé Percy Shelley\, the fa
 mously promiscuous Lord Byron\, and John Polidori\, his sexually torment
 ed personal physician. At the group’s center was Claire Clairmont\, Mary
 ’s impressionable\, clever\, and dangerously loyal stepsister. Those mon
 ths of desire\, betrayal\, and creative passion gave the world the works
  of Frankenstein\, the modern vampire\, and the mythic image of these Ro
 mantic literary giants. In this intense and propulsive story of love\, l
 ust\, art and betrayal Claire tells her story\, trying to solve the myst
 ery of why she was all but erased from history. Claire—herself a writer—
 is desperate to free herself from the uncomfortable role she plays in he
 r sister’s marriage in London. Fueled by Jane Austin’s romantic novels\,
  and believing love offers freedom\, Claire begins an affair with celebr
 ity Lord Byron and convinces Mary and Shelley to follow him to Switzerla
 nd. With the threat of paparazzi lurking nearby\, Claire’s intimate conn
 ection to each member of the celebrity group grows more complex. Her jou
 rney of self-discovery leads her to document everyone’s secrets in her j
 ournal\, and when climate disaster causes food shortages\, Claire learns
  to forage\, determined to prove her worth in a world built by and creat
 ed for men. The real Claire Clairmont poured her love\, life\, and razor
 -sharp wit into her pages\, yet her journal from 1816 is curiously missi
 ng and each member of the group had a reason to take it. With searing re
 levance to our here and now—of celebrity worship\, climate disaster\, of
  complicated femininity\, Love & Other Monsters is the untold origin sto
 ry of Frankenstein\, a feminist reckoning of sisters\, survival\, and th
 e creation of monsters—both those on the page and those who walk among u
 s. About the Author Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of twenty-f
 ive books including The Lioness of Boston\, based on the life of trailbl
 azer Isabella Stewart Gardner\, now in its eleventh printing and recentl
 y featured as a clue on Jeopardy! Her work has been published in The New
  York Times\, The Boston Globe\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Journal of 
 the American Medical Association\, among many other places\, as well as 
 featured and read aloud on National Public Radio and named notable by th
 e Association of Jewish Libraries. She grew up half in the UK and half i
 n Boston where she lives now with her spouse and four children. Her late
 st novel\, Love & Other Monsters\, is the untold origin story of Franken
 stein told from the perspective Claire Clairmont\, Mary Shelley’s stepsi
 ster and Lord Byron’s lover\, who changed the course of literature forev
 er—and then was erased.\n\nTickets: http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/form
 /gibson-s-event-rsvp\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/e6a06e92-62bb-
 4a4e-863d-31a4bc23dc0b
LOCATION:Gibson's Bookstore\, 45 S Main St\, Concord\, NH 03301
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/e6a06e92-62bb-4a4e-863d-31a4bc23dc0
 b
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