SuitabookIdentity and bodily change
Robert discovers that his body is not as he understood it and searches for answers about what has happened to him.
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Kevin Brooks - Author
A dark, high-concept thriller about bodily change, fear and the search for answers. The opening promises urgent medical horror, while the story later becomes more character-driven and ends with disturbing violence.
Sixteen-year-old Robert lies anaesthetized. A routine operation has just gone wrong.'What the hell is that?''That, Mr Ryan, is the inside of this boy.''Christ . . . It looks like some kind of plastic.'As Robert slowly wakes, he can hear, he can feel, but he can't scream. The operation isn't over. But life, as Robert knows it, is.Robert goes on the run, terrified and desperate for answers. But what if the answers are too terrifying to face?This is Kevin Brooks at his very best - powerful, intense, page-turning reading for teenage readers and beyond.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA dark, high-concept thriller about bodily change, fear and the search for answers. The opening promises urgent medical horror, while the story later becomes more character-driven and ends with disturbing violence.
Robert discovers that his body is not as he understood it and searches for answers about what has happened to him.
After the operation, Robert runs away while frightened and desperate, and the story includes escape, conflict and a disturbing ending.
Expect intense medical imagery, helplessness during an operation, terror, running away, criminal activity and a gruesome final section. The book’s treatment of these elements may warrant a conversation before or during reading.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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