The Nature of Monsters (Five Star Western Series) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Nature of Monsters (Five Star Western Series) Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 1666: The Great Fire of London sweeps through the streets and a heavily pregnant woman flees the flames. A few months later she gives birth to a child disfigured by a red birthmark. 1718: Sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally sees the gleaming dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral rising above a rebuilt city. She arrives as an apothecary’s maid, a position hastily arranged to shield the father of her unborn child from scandal. But why is the apothecary so eager to welcome her when he already has a maid, a half-wit named Mary? Why is Eliza never allowed to look her veiled master in the face or go into the study where he pursues his experiments? It is only on her visits to the Huguenot bookseller who supplies her master’s scientific tomes that she realizes the nature of his obsession. And she knows she has to act to save not just the child but Mary and herself. With exquisite prose, dark humor, and a historian’s eye for detail, Clare Clark has created another transporting novel.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Nature of Monsters (Five Star Western Series) Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Clare Clark: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Nature of Monsters (Five Star Western Series) Friday, July 17 2009.

• Afterwards, when I knew that I had not loved him at all, the shock was all in my stomach, like the feeling when you miscount going upstairs in the dark and climb a step that is not there.