The Nature of Monsters
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The Nature of Monsters

A Novel

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eBook - ePub

The Nature of Monsters

A Novel

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A pregnant teenager discovers her employer's sinister secrets in an eighteenth-century London that "feels alive and intense, magnificently raw" ( The New York Times Book Review ). 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. This ebook includes a sample chapter of Beautiful Lies.

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Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2008
ISBN
9780547542768
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Historical Fiction
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Prologue
  6. I
  7. II
  8. III
  9. IV
  10. V
  11. VI
  12. VII
  13. VIII
  14. IX
  15. X
  16. XI
  17. XII
  18. XIII
  19. XIV
  20. XV
  21. XVI
  22. XVII
  23. XVIII
  24. XIX
  25. XX
  26. XXI
  27. XXII
  28. XXIII
  29. XXIV
  30. XXV
  31. XXVI
  32. XXVII
  33. XXVIII
  34. XXIX
  35. XXX
  36. XXXI
  37. XXXII
  38. XXXIII
  39. XXXIV
  40. XXXV
  41. XXXVI
  42. XXXVII
  43. XXXVIII
  44. XXXIX
  45. XL
  46. XLI
  47. XLII
  48. XLIII
  49. Author's Note
  50. Acknowledgments
  51. Sample Chapter from BEAUTIFUL LIES
  52. Buy the Book
  53. About the Author