Veronica Bennett

a fictional, though fairly historically accurate, take on Mary Shelley's early life. Mary falls in love with titled, nearly penniless poet Percy Shelley, and runs away with him. They, and her step-sister Jane/Claire Clairemont, live lives full of poetry and squalid emotional scenes amidst a sea of dead babies, suicides, and affairs. Their lives were amazingly tragic, but Bennett mostly manages to keep the book on an even keel. My one problem with this book was the constant, heavy-handed foreshadowing. For fans of this book, I'd recommend reading [b:Death and the Maidens: The Death of Fanny Wollstonecraft|1166343|Death and the Maidens The Death of Fanny Wollstonecraft|Janet M. Todd|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ytPtKU+VL._SL75_.jpg|1154030], a non-fiction look at the same family.… (more)