The Nature of Monsters

By Clare Clark

Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine, Large type books, Teenage girls, Fiction, historical, general, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Pharmacists, Women household employees, Fiction, Pregnant women, Social conditions, History, Fiction, psychological

Description: It is 1718 and, in a small parish near Newcastle, Eliza Tally, a headstrong girl of sixteen, embarks on a reckless love affair that will prove her undoing. When her lover casts her off, denying their union, she is forced to travel to London, a city that attracts and alarms her in equal measure. There she takes up a position in the house of an apothecary, Grayson Black, whom she trusts to salvage what remains of her reputation.