Anima Rising

Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian
Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman’s nude body in
the Danube canal. He knows he should summon a policeman, but he can’t
resist stopping to make a sketch first. And as he draws, the woman
coughs. She’s alive!

Back at his studio, Klimt and his model-turned-muse Wally tend to the
formerly-drowned girl. She’s nearly feral and doesn’t remember who she
is, or how she came to be floating in the canal. Klimt names her Judith,
after one of his most famous paintings, and resolves to help her find her
memory.

With a little help from Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Judith recalls being
stranded in the arctic one hundred years ago, locked in a crate by a man
named Victor Frankenstein, and visiting the Underworld.

So how did she get here? And why are so many people chasing her,
including Geoff, the giant croissant-eating devil dog of the North?
Poor Things meets Bride of Frankenstein in Anima Rising, Christopher
Moore’s most ingenious (and probably most hilarious) novel yet.