Frankissstein

Winterson reboots Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the 21st Century, launching us into a hold-on-to-your hat modern-day horror story about very modern-day neuroses and issues.

Rebecca Thomas, BBC News

Yes, the book we have all been waiting for. Yes, everything Winterson has always done so well. Yes, above and beyond anything that is yet to be written.

Daisy Johnson

Astonishing. Bold. Teeming with wit and intellectual prowess. Winterson is a literary giant. She remains one of my favourite writers.

Irenosen Okojie

Intelligent and inventive… Frankisstein is very funny. There has always been a fine line between horror and high camp, and this is a boundary that Winterson gleefully exploits.

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Times

Refreshingly, Jeanette Winterson’s Frankisstein… is a wildly inventive reimagining of one of science fiction’s most beloved stories… lyrical, gloriously raunchy, pulpy and absurd.

Helen Marshall, New Scientist

Winterson writes in many forms then, but always with complete verve and disarming self-confidence… readers are in deft hands with Winterson. It helps that it’s a lighter read than you might expect: the schlocky history of Frankenstein and its many film spin-offs have given her permission to have some fun. And the sex robot business is truly hilarious.

AN Devers, Prospect

A riotous reimagining with an energy and passion all of its own that reanimates Frankenstein as a cautionary tale for a contemporary moment dominated by debates about Brexit, gender, artificial intelligence and medical experimentation… While the story has a gripping momentum of its own, it also fizzes with ideas.

Daisy Hay, Financial Times

A clever comic romp that teases at the nature — and future — of life, death and what it is to be human, without ever being ponderous… [Frankissstein is] first-rate.

Daily Mail

Winterson has had a surge of inventiveness… Frankissstein gamely links arms with the zeitgeist. is a book that seeks to shift our perspective on humanity and the purpose of being human in the most darkly entertaining way… gloriously well observed .. I found myself vibrating with laughter.

Johanna Thomas-Corr, Observer, Book of the Day

Funny and philosophical… This is a love story about life itself from a gifted writer.

Psychologies

Here, hard science and dreamy Romanticism exist in both tension and harmony… Frankissstein abounds with invention… this is a work of both pleasure and profundity, robustly and skilfully structured, and suffused with all Winterson’s usual preoccupations – gender, language, sexuality, the limits of individual liberty and the life of ideas.

Sam Byers, Guardian, *Book of the Week*

A surprisingly funny novel… [and] characters…[are] well-rounded, with unexpected layers.

Rhian Drinkwater, SFX

Highly satisfying.

Claire Allfree, Daily Telegraph

Frankisstein… is as wise as it is playful… historical past, fictional present and alarming future intertwined.

Christina Hardyment, The Times, *Audiobook of the Week*