Poor Things Av Alasdair Gray

<b>WINNER OF TWO GOLDEN GLOBES, STARRING EMMA STONE, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF <i>THE FAVOURITE</i></b><u><b>Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize</b></u><i>A life without freedom to choose is not worth having.</i>Godwin Baxter''s scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realised when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a <i>Frankenstein</i>-esque feat. But his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless''s jealous love for his creation . . .But what does Bella think?This story of true love and scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.________________________''A magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book''<i> London Review of Books</i>''Visionary, ornate and outrageous'' <i>The Independent</i>''Witty and delightfully written'' <i>New York Times</i><i>''</i>A brilliant marriage of technique, intelligence, and art.'' <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>''The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott'' Anthony Burgess''Those who, like me, are unsure if they are Alasdair Gray fans or not, ought to fall on <i>Poor Things</i> with delight, and not just because of the almost excessive beauty of its appearance'' Philip Hensher, <i>Spectator</i>