It is 1718 and, in a small parish near Newcastle, Eliza Tally, a headstrong girl of 15, 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 cit 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 the remains of her reputation.
From the highly-acclaimed author of 'The Great Stink' comes a gloriously- written tale of consuming passions and obsessions. Set against the clamour and roar of eighteenth- century London, 'The Nature Of Monsters' brings vividly to life a world where the line separating science and madness is dangerously blurred, and where a single life counts for little in the relentless pursuit of progress.
