The Nature of Monsters

In 1718, sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally, left pregnant following a reckless love affair, journeys to London to escape the scandal and take a job as an apothecary's maid, only to find herself working for a mysterious apothecary who refuses to let her see his face or enter the study where he pursues his experiments. By the author of The Great Stink. Reprint.