{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Poor Things","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/poor-things","description":"Godwin Baxter\u0026#39;s scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a Frankenstein-esque feat. But his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless\u0026#39;s jealous love for his creation...\n\nBut what does Bella think?\n\nThis story of true love and scientific daring whirls the listeners from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.","author_name":"Alasdair Gray","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/alasdair-gray","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/60501268/7c33e626fc68adffd185c719ea9efa0405d7b78b.jpeg","thumbnail_width":128,"thumbnail_height":196}