●2012英國卡內基文學 獎提名
●2011年英國 Costa Book Awards入圍
●美國圖書館協會2011年度最佳青少年書
●已售出10個國家版權
學校放長假,耶誕節就要來了。艾力克在門禁時間前匆匆趕回家。但是當他第二天一覺醒來,卻發現自己睡錯了房間,在一棟陌生的房子,陌生的區域……而且時值炎熱的六月天。一夜之間,六個月不見了……
早餐桌上的親人都是陌生人,連他在鏡子裡看到的,也不再是自己,而是另一個陌生男孩的臉。艾力克不再是艾力克,他成了菲力普!
原來的他怎麼了?而現在這具身體的主人又怎麼了?他又急又氣又傷心,但除非他找出事件發生的原委、知道如何重回過去,否則他將永遠被困在這個他不想要的人的身體裡。
One December night, 14-year-old Alex goes to bed. He wakes up to find himself in the wrong bedroom, in an unfamiliar house, in a different part of the country, and it's the middle of June. Six months have disappeared overnight. The family at the breakfast table are total strangers.
And when he looks in the mirror, another boy's face stares back at him. A boy named Flip. Unless Alex finds out what's happened and how to get back to his own life, he may be trapped forever inside a body that belongs to someone else.
Questions of identity, the will to survive, and what you're willing to sacrifice to be alive make this extraordinary book impossible to put down.
★本書中譯版《交換》由未來出版。
作者簡介
馬丁.貝德弗 Martyn Bedford
英國作家,1959年在倫敦南部的克羅依登出生,東英吉利大學創意寫作碩士。專事寫作之前,在英國各地當過12年的記者,也曾遠渡香港教授英文。目前和妻子、兩個女兒居住在西約克郡,並在學院裡擔任創意寫作課程。
先後已出版過5本成人小說,被翻譯成12種語文。平常也在報紙、雜誌發表短篇小說。《Flip》是他的第一本青少年小說。
MARTYN BEDFORD has written five adult novels, including The Houdini Girl (Vintage). A former journalist, he teaches at Leeds Trinity University College. Martyn lives in West Yorkshire, England, with his wife and two daughters. Flip is his first novel for young adults.