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<P>‘Compelling, elegant and bitingly smart.’ <B>Nell Stevens, author of <I>Briefly, A Delicious Life</I></B><BR/><BR/><B>A <I>Frankenstein</I> for the twenty-first century by the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of <I>Trinity</I> and <I>Speak</I></B><BR/><BR/> A woman begins work on a novel about Mary Shelley while pregnant for the first time. Recently married, she has just moved from New York to Montana.<BR/><BR/> As the woman writes, fragments of Shelley’s story begin to detach themselves from the page. Moving through her reproductive years, Shelley endured a catalogue of losses painful beyond comprehension. Still, she wrote, conceiving <I>Frankenstein </I>in 1816.<BR/><BR/> The woman’s experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage and labour are traumatic and disorienting, especially in the context of political upheaval, climate crisis, and an ongoing pandemic. Finally, she gives birth to a daughter and together they emerge into another wo