Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Coco Mellors

A whirlwind New Year's Eve meeting leads a young British painter in New York and an older, successful advertising executive into an impulsive marriage that reshapes both their lives. Told from multiple points of view within their circle of friends and family, the novel follows the unraveling of youthful idealism against struggles with addiction, mental illness, and identity. It's a character-driven literary portrait of love, art, and self-destruction set against a vividly rendered New York backdrop.