Lake Union Publishing
October 2015
On Sale: September 29, 2015
Featuring: Mary Shelley
410 pages ISBN: 1503945189 EAN: 9781503945180 Kindle: B00TKU7CWA Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
The Determined Heart reveals the life of Mary Shelley in a story of love and obsession, betrayal and redemption.
The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley had an unconventional childhood populated with the most talented and eccentric personalities of the time. After losing her mother at an early age, she finds herself in constant conflict with a resentful stepmother and a jealous stepsister. When she meets the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she falls deeply in love, and they elope with disastrous consequences.
Soon she finds herself destitute and embroiled in a torturous love triangle as Percy takes Maryβs stepsister as a lover. Over the next several years, Mary struggles to write while she and Percy face ostracism, constant debt, and the heartbreaking deaths of three children. Ultimately, she achieves great acclaim for Frankenstein, but at what cost?
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