Cocktails & Conversation with Emily Franklin, author of "Love & Other Monsters"

Most of us know the classic horror story Frankenstein but what about the real life scandal behind its creation?

From the bestselling author of The Lioness of Boston comes Love & Other Monsters, historical fiction based on the true story of Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s forgotten stepsister, who forever changed the course of literature. This is the origin story of Frankenstein that hasn’t been told. BookPage calls it “a burning tale that does not make its readers wait for the payoff—indeed, nearly every page drips with juicy details.”

Author Emily Franklin will return to New Rochelle to spill the tea on what really happened when she sits down with author/moderator Prof. Amy Bass for Cocktails & Conversation, the New Rochelle Public Library Foundation’s popular series, on Thursday, October 29th at Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Plaza, NR) from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Tickets cost $70 and include delicious nibbles and two drinks. Tickets can be purchased on line from nrplfoundation.org

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Tickets can also be purchased by mail with a check payable to NRPLF sent to New Rochelle Public Library Foundation, 1 Library Plaza, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Proceeds from this event will benefit the New Rochelle Public Library Foundation. Copies of Love & Other Monsters will be available for purchase and signing on site from J Anderson’s Books in Larchmont.

About the Book

Described as Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet meets Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, Emily Franklin’s new book is an intense and propulsive story of love, lust, art and betrayal. Set in the stormy summer of 1816, the book introduces us to the famous young writers who gathered at a mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland: Brilliant Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her fiery fiancé Percy Shelley, the famously promiscuous Lord Byron, and -- at the group’s center--Claire Clairmont, Mary’s 18-year-old stepsister. Together this gathering of Romantics changes the course of literature – but somehow Claire finds herself erased from the story.

About Emily Franklin
Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of twenty-five books including The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, now in its eleventh printing and recently featured as a clue on Jeopardy! Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among many other places, as well as featured and read aloud on National Public Radio and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. She grew up half in the UK and half in Boston where she lives now with her spouse and four children.

About Cocktails & Conversation
Cocktails & Conversation is one of the NRPL Foundation’s signature events, designed to bring book lovers together for lively conversations. Each evening features an author discussion moderated by Prof. Amy Bass, Ph.D., NRPL Foundation Board Member, historian, and acclaimed author of One Goal: A Coach, A Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together.