In the Lives of Puppets: A No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and ultimate cosy fantasyTJ Klune
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NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRRING EMMA STONE, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE FAVOURITE.
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
A life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a Frankenstein-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' London Review of Books
'Visionary, ornate and outrageous' The Independent
'Witty and delightfully written' New York Times
'A brilliant marriage of technique, intelligence, and art.' Kirkus Reviews
'The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' Anthony Burgess
© 2023 W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781004141333
Release date
Audiobook: 26 October 2023
Poor Things
- By
- With:
- Publisher
NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRRING EMMA STONE, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE FAVOURITE.
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
A life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a Frankenstein-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' London Review of Books
'Visionary, ornate and outrageous' The Independent
'Witty and delightfully written' New York Times
'A brilliant marriage of technique, intelligence, and art.' Kirkus Reviews
'The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' Anthony Burgess
© 2023 W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781004141333
Release date
Audiobook: 26 October 2023
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Debamitra
24 Mar 2024
Thought-provokingConfusingUnpredictableLiked it. Not sure I fully understood it. Although it addresses burning women's issues the book suffers for being too verbose and is slow moving for the majority of the time. Pick it up if you have plenty of time and patience. Hopefully Yorgos understood it better than me.
Mini
3 Apr 2024
SmartPage-turnerThrillingThe book was funnier and more nuanced compared to the film
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