{"product_id":"9781398522466","title":"Reproduction","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Hall, Louisa \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 06\/06\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 224 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781398522466,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Compelling, elegant and bitingly smart.’ Nell Stevens, author of Briefly, A Delicious LifeA Frankenstein for the twenty-first century by the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of Trinity and Speak A woman begins work on a novel about Mary Shelley while pregnant for the first time. Recently married, she has just moved from New York to Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the woman writes, fragments of Shelley’s story begin to detach themselves from the page. Moving through her reproductive years, Shelley endured a catalogue of losses painful beyond comprehension. Still, she wrote, conceiving Frankenstein in 1816.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The woman’s experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage and labour are traumatic and disorienting, especially in the context of political upheaval, climate crisis, and an ongoing pandemic. Finally, she gives birth to a daughter and together they emerge into another world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Then a friend from the past reappears. Anna is a biochemist who has been struggling to become a parent, a scientist who sees everything as an experiment. How far will she go in her desire to bring a baby into being? ? Devastating and joyful, elegant and exacting, Reproduction is a powerful reminder of the hazards and the rewards involved in creating new life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43364718215212,"sku":"9781398522466","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781398522466.jpg?v=1716135955","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781398522466","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}