Frankissstein

<p><b>***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***</b><br><b>**SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020**</b><br><b>**LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020**</b><br><br><b><i>'Beware for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'</i></b><br><b><br>Inspired by Mary Shelley's gothic classic <i>Frankenstein</i> discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire.</b><br><br>As Brexit grips Britain Ry a young transgender doctor is falling in love. The object of their misguided affection: the celebrated AI-specialist Professor Victor Stein. Meanwhile Ron Lord just divorced and living with his Mum again is set to make his fortune with a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.<br><br>Ranging from 1816 when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley pens her radical first novel to a cryonics facility in present-day Arizona where the dead wait to return to life <i>Frankissstein </i>shows us how much closer we are to the future than we realise.<br><br><b>'Intelligent and inventive...very funny' <i>The Times</i> </b><br><br><b>'One of the most gifted writers working today' <i>New York Times</i></b></p>