In the stormy\, scandalous summer of 1816\ , daring eighteen-year-old Claire Clairmont changed the course of literatu re forever. But then&mdash\;unlike her stepsister Mary Shelley&mdash\;she was forgotten\, until now.
\nDuring the dangerous storms of The Year Without Summer\, a group of famous young writers gathered at a mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva\, Switzerland: brilliant Mary Wollstonecraft Sh elley\, her fiery fiancé\; Percy Shelley\, the famously promiscuous Lord Byron\, and John Polidori\, his sexually tormented personal physician . At the group&rsquo\;s center was Claire Clairmont\, Mary&rsquo\;s impres sionable\, clever\, and dangerously loyal stepsister. Those months of desi re\, betrayal\, and creative passion gave the world the works of \;Fra nkenstein\, the modern vampire\, and the mythic image of these Romantic li terary giants. In this intense and propulsive story of love\, lust\, art a nd betrayal Claire tells her story\, trying to solve the mystery of why sh e was all but erased from history.
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\nAbout Emily:< /strong>
\nEmily is the bestselling author of more than twenty books including a poetry \;collection\, \;Tell Me How You Got Here< /em>. Her work has been published in \;The New York Times\, < em>The Boston Globe\, The Kenyon Review\, \;Guernica \, \;and \;The Journal of the American Medical Associatio n\, among many other places\, as well as featured and read aloud on N ational Public Radio\, and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libr aries. Her novel \;The Lioness of Boston\, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner\, is in its tenth printing and was recently featured as a clue on Jeopardy! \;
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