1816 – The Villa Diodati, Geneva, Switzerland.
Incessant darkness – nothing else. Then comes the thunder: heavy and foreboding. Then the lightning: bright, white and dangerous.
In its glow, 18-year-old Mary Shelley stands over a bloodied corpse and knows her words are to blame. To claim those words – she knows there is more death to come.
Jess Sayer builds on the bones of history to re-imagine the events of the infamous night that birthed Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.