Jeanette Winterson Jonathan Cape, 2019, HB, 352pp, £16.00, 978-1787331402
Artificial intelligence and robotics, gender politics, and transgenderism are brought together in this rich, thoughtful, and entertaining novel by Jeanette Winterson. This year is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Winterson celebrates it by interleaving Shelley’s experiences and reflections with a present-day ‘love story’. This unites Dr (Ma) Ry Shelley, an A&E doctor whose female to male transition has stopped short of …