Frankissstein A Love Story

<p><b>This "thought-provoking and . . . unabashedly entertaining . . . novel defies conventional expectations and exists, brilliantly and defiantly, on its own terms" (Sarah Lotz, <i>New York Times Book Review</i>).</b></p> <p><i>Lake Geneva, 1816.</i> Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead . . . but waiting to return to life.</p> <p>Since her astonishing debut <i>Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit</i>, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide acclaim as "one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time" (<i>Elle</i>). In <i>Frankissstein</i>, she shares an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love.</p> <p><b>Longlisted for the Booker Prize</b></p>