Our Hideous Progeny set in London

Submitted: 1st September 2024

Our Hideous Progeny

Fifth in our literary travel week courtesy of the Wilbur Smith and Niso Smith Foundation who are currently shortlisting the titles up for the grand prize is..

Off to London and Edinburgh we go!

Map of locations in Our Hideous Progeny

BOARDING PASS INFORMATION

Destination : London and Edinburgh

Author guide: C E McGill

Genre: fiction

Food and drink to accompany: blood

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Map of locations in Our Hideous Progeny

Originally reviewed in May 2023

Travel plans:

Mary in the novel has a great uncle called Victor Frankenstein who has disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic. It’s the 1950s and Mary wants to make her own way in the world but of course she can’t as she’s a woman. Her husband is a geologist but in this world of scientific discoveries, she can’t hope to find her place. She’s into paleontology but society just dismisses her and others like her with the opinion what does a woman know?

Travel review:

This is a remarkable read I found. Yes it’s a retelling of Mary Shelley’s themes within Frankenstein but it’s more than that. There’s a world of ethics, science, motherhood and mortality in this as well as gender and queer identity which is not something I have read about much. A nod to a novel I know allowed me to get this on a whole other level.

It’s an incredibly compelling read. Congrats to the author!