A night that birthed a monster. The woman they wrote out of it. 'Intimate and enlightening.
A story that lingers in the mind far beyond the last page' Susan Stokes-Chapman 'A
fascinating journey into the dark underbelly of Romanticism.' Meg Clothier 'A sensitive
beautifully told fictionalisation that gives a voice to one of literature's greatest muses.'
Laura Shepperson 1816. A massive volcanic eruption has caused the worst storms that Europe
has seen in decades yet Percy and Mary Shelley have chosen to visit the infamous Lord Byron at
his villa on Lake Geneva. It wasn't their idea: Mary's eighteen year old step-sister Claire
Clairmont insisted. But the reason for Claire's visit is more pressing than a summer escape
with the most famous writers in the world. She's pregnant with Byron's child - a child Byron
doesn't want and scarcely believes is his own. Claire has the world in her grasp. This trip
should have given her everything she ever dreamed of. But within days her life will be in
ruins. History has all but forgotten her story - but she will not be silenced. [Wildfire
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