Genuinely thoughtprovoking THE TIMESExtraordinary WILLIAM BOYDFaulks is an enviably graceful and economical writer GUARDIANA CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHINGTech 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 hes different he cant 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 its also one of his best FINANCIAL TIMESHis greatest novel yet ANTONY BEEVORProfoundly moving . . . a wonderful and lifeaffirming love story JAMES HOLLANDOriginal and enthralling PETER JAMES