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by Michael Stewart (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Every parent hopes for a perfect child. Jake Chalmers, paediatrician and geneticist, knows how to make one. He creates Sophie, a daughter as lovely as she is brilliant. A prodigy. But he could never have foreseen the explosive emotional consequences when she discovers how she gained her prodigious intellect, nor ever imagined the bizarre and terrifying form in which her unconscious rage takes its revenge.

From the moment of her birth, Jake is determined to do everything to develop Sophie's extraordinary mind. His wife Alex argues it is unfair to push Sophie to the limit - unfair, too, to favour her over her older brother, Danny, a Down's child. To Jake, it is irresponsible not to. And he has his reasons why it is vital, reasons he cannot declare.

But what of the girl's emotional development? What happens when feelings are deliberately subordinated to intellect? As Sophie grows to full flower, genius and passion are set in fatal conflict. With the pressures building up, Sophie struggles vainly to hold on to reason. But she is no ordinary girl, and when her suppressed feelings finally find release, no one, not even Jake, could have imagined the extraordinary form they take and the terrible, tragic consequences they entail.

Length: 368 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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ASIN : B00AQF0IUQ
Language : English
File size : 794 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 368 pages

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M. J. Dudley

This is "Monkey Shines" Rewritten!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2020

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That was bizarre. I bought "Prodigy" (1988) by Michael Stewart, on the basis of enjoying "Monkey Shines" (1983). It was basically the same book! The characters and setting were different, but the central concept and the plot were pretty much identical. Some scenes and dialogue were copied pretty much verbatim. Weird, and I felt cheated. Maybe the author decided to revisit it... Particularly strange because Monkey Shines was adapted into a film, so it wasn't particularly overlooked at the time. Both books were good, in isolation, but I only needed to read one of them 🙂. Four stars - because the story was still good, but there should be some sort of warning in the book description.

Alexigirl

Fabulous Book by a Fabulous Author!! Also known as Bob Shilling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 May 2015

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LOVE this book!!!

MISS LOUISE WALTON

Amazing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2013

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A brilliant story. It definitely makes you think!!!
I first read this about twenty-five years ago and I enjoyed it then. Managed to track it down and so glad I read it again.

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