The Forger's Ink
by Jo Mazelis
Description
It’s the 1970s, and a strange woman called Jude arrives at a bookshop claiming to know the owner’s wife, Helena. She carries a cache of mysterious documents relating to the life of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, Fanny Imlay. Did Fanny really commit suicide in 1816, as historian’s thought? The documents suggest not, hinting instead at a faked death and escape towards independence. But they also imply that the re-born Fanny remained misunderstood, mis-used and rejected, in the manner of Shelley’s Frankenstein monster.
These young women’s lives are precarious; they each struggle to find a place in the world. As the mysteries multiply, the lives of the women begin to intertwine, casting the origin of the letters and the story they tell into doubt.
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Reviews
“The Gothic tone matches the Wollstonecraft-Shelley subject matter... mysterious and beautiful...” – The Historical Novel Society
“A beautiful and haunting novel... Mazelis’ writing is remarkably skilful.” – Buzz Magazine
Author Biography
Jo Mazelis’s first novel ‘Significance’ (Seren Books, 2014) won the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Her collection of stories, ‘Diving Girls’, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth ‘Best First Book’ and Wales Book of the Year. Her second book, ‘Circle Games’, was longlisted for Wales Book of the Year. Her stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, published in various anthologies and magazines, and translated into Danish. Her third collection of stories ‘Ritual, 1969’ (Seren Books, 2016) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2017. ‘Blister & other Stories’ was shortlisted for the International Rubery Award.
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Copyright © Jo Mazelis, 2025
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Seren Books is proud to be the leading independent publisher of English-language writing from Wales publishing fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
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- Publisher Seren Books
- Publication Date March 2025
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781781724323
- Publication Country or regionWales
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 10.99 GBP
- Pages296
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2025
- Dimensions208 x 135 mm
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