Ordinary Lives

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Ordinary Lives is written by Bethany Pope and published by Stay Thirsty Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 069204986X (ISBN 10) and 9780692049860 (ISBN 13).

There is nothing ordinary about ORDINARY LIVES, a new historical novel by British writer and poet Bethany W. Pope. Her riveting story captures London's early nineteenth-century demimonde world in all its shadowy desperations and perversity. A novel of Gothic suspense, it resonates as both a classic love story and a modern, feminist cautionary tale with its every dark and quirky turn. At the book's heart is Mary, its central character and chief irony: a pituitary dwarf whose large intelligence, courage, and unyielding principles help her overcome her diminutive form. And there is John: a gentleman's third son and unloved momma's boy who risks reputation and even life itself to find real, nurturing love. Add an unscrupulous Frankenstein-like doctor, a transgender sexual mentor, and a craven reverend, and the reader meets a cast of colorful characters usually found in the work of Dickens or the Bront� sisters. ORDINARY LIVES is a special treat by a rising star with extraordinary talents and is the inaugural book published by Steven Jay Griffel under the SJG - A Steven Jay Griffel Book imprint of Stay Thirsty Publishing.