The Girl With The Green Eyes – J M Briscoe

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Bella is defective.

You need to take her back.

Genetic modification, the ferocity of a mother’s love, and the complexity of relationships.

Asking what it means to be human, as morality is blurred and science becomes destructive: How far is too far?

Part One of Take Her Back Trilogy… Nine-year-old Bella D’accourt has always known she was different; she was born into a controversial ‘designer baby’ eugenic programme, difference is in her DNA. But when she uses her manipulative charms to seriously injure another child, her mother brings her back to her creators and demands they fix her… Thus begins Bella’s new life among scientists and other eugenic Subjects at the mysterious Aspira Research Centre in Cumbria. But an enemy lurks in the shining laboratories, who will, years later, drive Bella from all she has worked for into a desperate, night-time flee across the country with her daughter, whom she will protect at all costs.

Long-listed for the Bridport Prize 2020

“A terrific sci-fi thriller with a fascinating plot.” Reader review

370 pages, paperback, published September 2021