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This is a dystopian novel from New Zealand's leading novelist of recent years. Set in a version of Britain that presupposes that World War 2 ended in a treaty rather than victory by the Allies, with the government being repressive and having borrowed some genetic engineering techniques from Nazi Germany, the story (set in 1979) focusses on the lives of three boys aged about 12 (identical triplets) who are kept in a home under close medical and behavioural scrutiny. The pace picks up and by halfway through the book I was desperate to know what the boys' fate would be.…
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