# The Seventh Son

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- Book: [The Seventh Son](https://www.bookquiver.com/sebastian-faulks/the-seventh-son) ([The Seventh Son.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sebastian-faulks/the-seventh-son.md))
- Authors: [Sebastian Faulks](https://www.bookquiver.com/sebastian-faulks)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-18-0494-283-3
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2024-05-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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