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In a near-future world where genetic engineering is commonplace – no one eats real meat any more, and furniture is made from fungus-based mycoleather – the questions we already face about the engineering of humans become all the more urgent.

- Rhian Drinkwater

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352 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook

Author Eve Smith

Publisher Orenda Books

Is it ethical to remove a disability? What about a tendency towards a heart problem – or alcoholism? How much might a parent change, if they could?

Susan and her husband have been trying to conceive for almost four years, breaking her heart with each month that passes. One night, she drunkenly sleeps with a colleague, and falls pregnant. She’s desperate to keep the baby, but knows testing after birth will reveal her true father. She hears of a new technique that may be able to tweak her child’s paternal DNA inside the womb. But is it safe? It’s certainly not legal, and Susan has no idea what the long-term effects might be.