Frankissstein

What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise.  Funny and furious, bold and clearsighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.

“This novel is talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy. You begin to linger on those three s’s when you speak the title aloud.”  -  Dwight Garner, The New York Times

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement - with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor in the public debate around AI. Ron Lord, recently divorced and now back with Mum, is set to make a fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for the lonely. 

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryonics facility houses dozens of men and women who are medically and legally dead - but urgently waiting to return to life. But the scene is set in 1816 when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life form: ‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'  

"...a brainy, batty story - an unholy amalgamation of scholarship and comedy. She manages to pay homage to Shelley’s insight and passion while demonstrating her own extraordinary creativity... From the start, these contemporary scenes feel like they’ve got a screw loose in the best possible way..."  -  Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Jeanette Winterson has written ten novels and a memoir, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays. After graduating from Oxford University, at the age of 25 she published her first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama.