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Glorious Monsters
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- Book Synopsis
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Rome, 1819. Into the sun-struck streets of the Eternal City arrive the Shelleys: brilliant, volatile, and dangerously entangled.
When Irish artist Amelia Curran encounters Mary Shelley, her mercurial husband Percy, and Mary’s dazzling stepsister Claire Clairmont, she is drawn into a household shimmering with genius and shadows. As Amelia becomes confidante, witness and reluctant guardian, she observes the trio’s rivalries, secrets and griefs sharpen in the heat of an Italian summer.
Haunted by the portrait of the executed noblewoman Beatrice Cenci, Amelia confronts the limits of art, loyalty and female agency while the Shelleys’ lives begin to unravel: illicit desires flare, past tragedies resurface, and the future of a child hangs in the balance.
Layered, intimate, and steeped in historical detail, Glorious Monsters is a spellbinding re-imagining of the Romantic circle where brilliance and ruin walk hand in hand.
- About The Author
- Martina Devlin is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist. Devlin has won numerous awards for both her writing and journalism. She has been shortlisted three times for the Irish Book of the Year awards. She writes weekly current affairs columns for the Irish Independent and has been named National Newspapers of Ireland columnist of the year. She frequently chairs literary and current affairs events and is a regular commentator on BBC and RTÉ. She was born in Omagh and lives in Dublin.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781807620110
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press, (01 October 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 316
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 215 x 135 mm
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