Fran works in a jewelry workshop, but his great passion - ever since he was a kid - has been writing. However, he has barely managed to publish a handful of stories in some minor anthologies. When he gets seriously ill, his wife Victoria is determined for Fran to see his long-awaited dream come true: to publish a novel in a major publishing house and take it to the top of the bestseller lists. Faced with the imminence of death and without him knowing it, Victoria will use all the means at her disposal to do so. But achieving success will be much more complex than she had imagined. Narrated as a thriller by Victoriäs own voice and peppered with quotes from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, "A Novel of Success" is easy to be devoured with relish thanks to a plot full of surprising twists and the inclusion of themes such as mercy, ambition, selfishness, little power to control the consequences of our decisions and how extreme and selfless love sometimes generates monsters.