Poor Creatures
The fascinating story of Mary Shelley – the mind which birthed Frankenstein
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Description
The brilliant, fictionalised story of Mary Shelley and the birth of
Frankenstein
.
PRAISE FOR THE SPECIMENS:
"A work of fiction that is both a potent portrait of early 19th-century Edinburgh but also a story about female agency or the lack of it. The result is a compelling, painful, haunted piece of work."
THE HERALD
"Beguiling and atmospheric, this is as much an engrossing character study as a bold reimagining of the infamous anatomy murders."
HEAT MAGAZINE
"A fresh, feminine take on the horrors of Burke and Hare and their complicit Edinburgh anatomists"
SALLY MAGNUSSON
Mairi Kidd
graduated with a First in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh and has worked in books ever since. Her novel
The Specimens
- a retelling of the 1828 crimes of Burke and Hare - was Waterstones Scottish
Book of the Month and the short stories from her collection
We Are All Witches
formed the basis for the award-winning 'Heal and Harrow' project.
She lives by the sea in Edinburgh with her illustrator husband and their rescue cat.