Poor Creatures

<p><i><b>She did not mean to<br>But she has killed, and killed, and killed again.<br></b></i><br>Dundee, 1812. Isabel Baxter awaits the arrival of Mary Godwin, a girl of precocious intellect and grand passions, sent north to cure an ailment no one understands. Nestled in woodland on the banks of the Tay, the Baxter family estate seems a perfect place for a troubled girl to recuperate. But The Cottage is a place of secrets, memories... and monsters.<br><br>Haunted by sickness and loss, Mary steps with Isabel into a shared fantasy world of intrigue and desire. As the fiction weaves its web about them, the two girls begin to lose their interest in reality - with far-ranging consequences for the lives of more than themselves...<br><br>The tale of the birth of <i>Frankenstein </i>has fascinated for centuries. <i>Poor Creatures</i> imagines the birth of Mary Shelley the writer - and the devastating effects on the circle about her.</p>