Loving Monsters Author:James Hamilton-Paterson A chance encounter in a local store leads a biographer to record the life of his enigmatic neighbor. From the terrace of a Tuscan villa comes the story of a tantalizing journey, leading the reader from the gas-lit streets of prewar London to Egypt in the months before World War II. Loving Monsters is a provocative novel, from the winner of the 1... more »991 Whitbread First Novel Award for Gerontius.« less