The Seventh Son

'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