Poor Things av Alasdair Gray

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<b>WINNER OF TWO GOLDEN GLOBES </b><b>and NOMINATED FOR ELEVEN ACADEMY AWARDS</b><b>, 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.<b>________________________</b><b>''A magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book''</b><i> London Review of Books</i><b>''Visionary, o