A radical love story for right now, from 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times)
Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at sixteen to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
A riotous reimagining with an energy and passion all of its own
that reanimates Frankenstein as a cautionary tale for a
contemporary moment dominated by debates about Brexit, gender,
artificial intelligence and medical experimentation… While the
story has a gripping momentum of its own, it also fizzes with
ideas.
*Financial Times*
A riotous reimagining with an energy and passion all of its own
that reanimates Frankenstein as a cautionary tale for a
contemporary moment dominated by debates about Brexit, gender,
artificial intelligence and medical experimentation… While the
story has a gripping momentum of its own, it also fizzes with
ideas.
*Financial Times*
Here, hard science and dreamy Romanticism exist in both tension and
harmony… Frankissstein abounds with invention… this is a work of
both pleasure and profundity, robustly and skilfully structured,
and suffused with all Winterson’s usual preoccupations – gender,
language, sexuality, the limits of individual liberty and the life
of ideas.
*Guardian, *Book of the Week**
A modern take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, it’s a fascinating
and engrossing look at AI, science, gender fluidity and,
ultimately, what it really means to be human.
*New Statesman, *Books of the Year**
Yes, the book we have all been waiting for. Yes, everything
Winterson has always done so well. Yes, above and beyond anything
that is yet to be written.
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