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Glorious Monsters

Glorious Monsters

Author: Martina Devlin
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Rome, 1819. Into the sun‑struck streets of the Eternal City ar­rive the Shelleys: brilliant, volatile, and dangerously entangled.

When Irish artist Amelia Curran encounters Mary Shelley, her mercurial husband Percy, and Mary’s dazzling stepsister Claire Clairmont, she is drawn into a household shimmering with ge­nius and shadows. As Amelia becomes confidante, witness and reluctant guardian, she observes the trio’s rivalries, secrets and griefs sharpen in the heat of an Italian summer.

Haunted by the portrait of the executed noblewoman Beatrice Cenci, Amelia confronts the limits of art, loyalty and female agency while the Shelleys’ lives begin to unravel: illicit desires flare, past tragedies resurface, and the future of a child hangs in the balance. 

Layered, intimate, and steeped in historical detail, Glorious Monsters is a spellbinding re‑imagining of the Romantic circle where brilliance and ruin walk hand in hand.

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ISBN: 9781807620110

Extent: 344

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About the Author

Martina Devlin is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist, having published ten books to date. Devlin has won numerous awards for both her writing and journalism, including the Hennessy Literary Award 1996, GALA columnist of the year 2010, National Newspapers of Ireland columnist of the year 2011 and Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett short story award 2012. She was also Writer-in-Residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco in 2009. She has been shortlisted three times for the Irish Book of the Year awards, and her non-fiction account of the Irish financial collapse, Banksters, co-authored with David Murphy, topped the best-seller list for eight weeks. A former Fleet Street journalist, she writes weekly current affairs columns for the Irish Independent and has been named National Newspapers of Ireland columnist of the year. She frequently chairs literary and current affairs events and is a regular commentator on BBC and RTÉ. She was born in Omagh and lives in Dublin.

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