 |  | | | Clare Clark on The Nature on Monsters | 02 Mar 2007 | | |
Clare Clark’s first historical novel The Great Stink was set against the pungent backdrop of Victorian London’s sewers, and was very well received. Her recently published second tale The Nature of Monsters is set in the same squalid and exciting capital city, but in the early eighteenth century. It focuses on the plight of 16-year-old Eliza Tally, sent to London, betrayed by her lover, pregnant and struggling both emotionally and financially in a world that could be very cruel to women.
Clare Clark joins Martha to talk about why the seemier side of London’s history holds such a fascination for her.
The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark is published by Viking, ISBN 0-670-91532-7. | |
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