POOR CREATURES

She did not mean toBut she has killed and killed and killed again.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.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...The tale of the birth of Frankenstein has fascinated for centuries. Poor Creatures imagines the birth of Mary Shelley the writer - and the devastating effects on the circle about her.