{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/653a8587238f610012302700/6870e01a610560d3ef39883f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Mairi's Musings - Episode 9 - Mairi reviews Poor Things by Alasdair Gray","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/653a8587238f610012302700/1752227546327-ab5ea369-3aa1-4aef-8572-34fb04b59d73.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Mairi shares her thoughts about the book&nbsp;<em>Poor Things&nbsp;by Alasdair Gray&nbsp;</em>this week. It's a wildly inventive, postmodern reimagining of Frankenstein set in Victorian Glasgow, where Bella Baxter—reborn with an infant’s brain—defies patriarchal control to carve her own path through scandal, feminism, and social critique.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Find it in our <a href=\"https://southlanarkshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/HOME\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">catalogue</a> and on <a href=\"https://southlanarkshire.borrowbox.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BorrowBox</a></p>","author_name":"South Lanarkshire Libraries"}