Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

Description Alasdair Grays Poor Things echoes Mary Shelleys Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Supposedly the product of the fiendish scientist Godwin Baxter, Bella was resurrected for the sole purpose of fulfilling the whims of her benefactor. As his desire turns to obsession, Archibalds motives to free Bella are revealed to be as selfish as Godwins, who claims her body and soul. But Bella has her own passions to pursue. Passions that take her to aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria, and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church. Exploring her station as a woman in the shadow of the patriarchy, Bella knows it is up to her to free herselfand to decide what meaning, if any, true love has in her life. Customers Also Liked Related products Poor by Katriona O’Sullivan Montgomery Bonbon: Death at the Lighthouse by Alasdair Beckett-King The Poor Mouth by Flann OBrien Reviews