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by Ted Morrissey (Author)
Margaret Saville's husband has been away on business for weeks and has stopped replying to her letters. Her brother, Robert Walton, has suddenly returned after three years at sea, having barely survived his exploratory voyage to the northern pole. She still grieves the death of her youngest child as she does her best to raise her surviving children, Felix and Agatha. The depth of her brother's trauma becomes clear, so that she must add his health and sanity to her list of cares. A bright spot seems to be a new friendship with a young woman who has just returned to England from the Continent, but Margaret soon discovers that her friend, Mary Shelley, has difficulties of her own, including an eccentric poet husband, Percy, and a book she is struggling to write. Margaret's story unfolds in a series of letters to her absent husband, desperate for him to return or at least to acknowledge her epistles and confirm that he is well. She is lonely, grief-stricken and afraid, yet in these darkest of times a spirit of independence begins to awaken. 'Mrs Saville' begins where Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' ends. This paperback edition includes the short story "A Wintering Place" and an Afterword by the author.
Author Biography
Ted Morrissey is the author of seven works of fiction, including the novel 'Crowsong for the Stricken, ' winner of the International Book Award in Literary Fiction 2018 from Book Fest, as well as the American Fiction Award, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of 2017; also the novella 'Weeping with an Ancient God, ' a Chicago Book Review Best Book of 2015. In addition to teaching high school English, he is a lecturer in Lindenwood University's MFA in Writing program (online
