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After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.
Thirteen-year old Eva wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma ...
But there is something, Eva senses, that she's not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?
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Peter Dickinson, born in 1927, has written more than fifty novels for adults and young readers; and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Award twice.
He is a tall, elderly, bony, beaky, wrinkled sort of fellow, with a
lot of untidy gray hair and a weird hooting voice – in fact he looks and
sounds a bit like Gandalf’s crazy twin, but he’s only rather absent-minded,
probably because he’s thinking about something else. Day-dreaming, mostly.
He was born in the middle of Africa, within earshot of the Victoria Falls.
Baboons sometimes came into the school playground. When people went swimming in
the Zambezi they did it in a big wooden cage let down into the water, so that
the crocs couldn’t get at them. For the hot weather the ...
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