Being
  • Published: 7 May 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141910574
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

Being

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A stunning combination of The Fugitive and Bladerunner. A thought-provoking, philosophical thriller from award-winning Kevin Brooks now in paperback.

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.
  • Published: 7 May 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141910574
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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About the author

Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks has written nine children's novels and has won several awards including Canongate Prize for New Writing, Branford Boase Award, Kingston Youth Book Award, North East Book Award, Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis Jury Prize, Buxtehude Bulle, Golden Bookworm. A Dance of Ghosts is the first of his adult novels. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife, Sue.

Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter, Devon, and he studied in Birmingham and London. He has worked in a crematorium, a zoo, a garage and a post office, before - happily - giving it all up to write books. Kevin is the award-winning author of eight novels and lives in North Yorkshire.


'Kevin Brooks just gets better and better, and given that he started off brilliant, that leaves one scratching around for superlatives' - Sunday Telegraph             .

'He's an original. And he writes one hell of a story' - Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now

'A masterly writer' - Mail on Sunday

Also by Kevin Brooks

The Bunker Diary
Wrapped in White
Until the Darkness Comes
Naked
A Dance of Ghosts
iBoy
Killing God
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Praise for Being

A subtle, spooky, headlong dash through the dark edges of romantic science fiction, a genre Kevin Brooks – with his usual delight in flouting convention – appears to have invented

Meg Rosoff, author of, How I Live Now

Violently enjoyable

The Times

Original in its premise and captivating in its delivery. A gripping read

Big Issue

Sharp and precise . . . a meditation on the nature of humanity

Sunday Times

An exciting on-the-run thriller . . . you'll be gripped

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