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  • Published: 3 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804942833
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00

The Seventh Son





THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'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

  • Published: 3 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804942833
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00

About the author

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks’s books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.

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