Reproduction

The novel "Reproduction" by Nell Stevens is a Frankenstein for the twenty-first century, following a woman who moves from New York to Montana and writes a novel about Mary Shelley while pregnant for the first time. The woman's experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage, and labor are traumatic and disorienting, and she gives birth to a daughter.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

A woman embarks on a novel about Mary Shelley while pregnant for the first time, having recently relocated from New York to Montana. As she writes, fragments of Shelley's story begin to detach themselves from the page, moving through her reproductive years amidst political upheaval, climate crisis, and an ongoing pandemic. The woman's experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage, and labor are traumatic and disorienting, particularly in this context. Finally, she gives birth to a daughter and together they emerge into another world.

Then, a friend from the past reappears: Anna, a biochemist 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?

Reproduction is a powerful reminder of the hazards and rewards involved in creating new life, devastating and joyful, elegant and exacting.

Weight: 308g
Dimension: 142 x 224 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398522435