Caroline Lea

• Oct-2025
• / Historical
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An evocative, haunting retelling of the summer that should have broken Mary Shelley, but instead inspired her to write her masterpiece.Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816: the dark summer that birthed a monster. Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has f...

• Jun-2025
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-2023
• / Historical
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The critically acclaimed author of The Glass Woman and The Metal Heart reimagines the shocking story of one of the most controversial contests in history, the Great Stork Derby, in which a millionaire’s death spawns a furious competition for his in...

• Jun-2021
• / Psychological Suspense
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Wild, beautiful and spellbinding, this is the compelling wartime story of freedom and love on the windswept islands of Orkney The sky is clear, star-stamped and silvered by the waxing gibbous moon. No planes have flown over the islands tonight; n...

• Feb-2019
• / Historical
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A tale in the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca, in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a...

• Nov-2016
• / Historical
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'Debut author Lea evokes the land with the lyrical fondness of a native...A finely detailed exploration of life during wartime.’ -- Kirkus

'The writing is beautiful. The characters' growing affinities, and the complications those relationships b...