Our Hideous Progeny: A thrilling Gothic Adventure

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With that expectation management, I think this is a close-to-perfect tale of science, women, and ethics. Mary’s new friendship gave me hope, and especially since she had to fight so hard over it (not just the outside world, but also her inner insecurities after a past so traumatic and saddening) there was nobody more deserving of that friendship than Mary herself. She attends meetings of the Royal Society, but the male members (and only men can be members) treat her as an anomaly, an amusement, and an aggravation. So at this point the story delves from real history (and real science) into the world of horror and science fiction. Witty, dark and sharp as a scalpel, it's a dazzling exploration of the macabre ambitions of Victorian science and a moving meditation on grief.

It’s always wonderful to meet someone who feels like they truly love and understand your work, and Kirsty Dunseath is just such a someone. A novel about youthful friendships, rivalry, unspeakable crimes and the way memories mutate when dark secrets are revealed, this is probably Ward’s most complex and brilliant book yet.Our main character Mary was Victor Frankenstein's great niece who decided to "recreate" his work (with a turtle, not a human - at least she was smart enough to learn a lesson).

This story follows the great niece of Victor Frankenstein and upon finding his papers she follows in his footsteps.It’s such an electrifyingly creative and wholly original take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and I genuinely couldn’t put it down. But gradually the dark side of the Panopticon, and the coercive ways an authoritarian government will use it, are chillingly revealed.