'Genuinely thought-provoking’ THE TIMES'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD‘Faulks is an enviably graceful and economical writer’ GUARDIAN

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING

Tech billionaire Lukas Parn has an ambitious plan. Behind the doors of the IVF clinic in his London institute, a daring switch is made. Young academic Talissa Adam believes she is simply carrying a child for a grateful family, but the baby inside her is different from any living human.

The boy, Seth, grows up unaware, though his parents not that he’s different: he can’t make plans, is unaware of danger and seems to have at least one extra sense. But as Seth becomes a man, the truth about him is revealed and the world starts to hunt him down. ‘ [An] unsettling book from one of our most popular novelists; it’s also one of his best’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘His greatest novel yet' ANTONY BEEVOR'Profoundly moving .. . a wonderful and life-affirming love story' JAMES HOLLAND'Original and enthralling' PETER JAMES

Format:Paperback / softback 368 pages

Publisher:Cornerstone

Imprint:Penguin (Cornerstone)

ISBN:9781804942833

Published:30 May 2024

Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)