The Seventh Son - Sebastian Faulks Kartoniert (TB)

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A genuinely thought-provoking piece of fiction' THE TIMES'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD 'Profoundly moving . . . a wonderful and life-affirming love story' JAMES HOLLAND 'His greatest novel yet' ANTONY BEEVOR'Original and enthralling' PETER JAMES'A beautifully written novel. On the one hand you have love kindness responsibility on the other monstrous arrogance and indifference to consequences' SCOTSMAN A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child she has no idea of the lif e-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute a billionaire entrepreneur plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics as never before. Through a series of IVF treatments which they hope to keep secret they propose an experiment that will upend the human race as we know it. Seth the baby is delivered to hopeful parents Mary and Alaric but when his differences start to mark him out from his peers he begins to attract unwanted attention. The Seventh Son is a spectacular examination of what it is to be human. It asks the question: just because you can do something does it mean you should? Sweeping between New York London and the Scottish Highlands this is an extraordinary novel about unrequited love and unearned power.