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Book SynopsisNicholas Mosley's Whitbread Award-winning novel Hopeful Monsters dealt with the suggestion that if human nature could not be improved by scientific manipulation, perhaps a suitable environment or soil might nonetheless be prepared into which an appropriate seed for change might fall, and not be smothered by weeds. In Metamorphosis, a humanitarian worker and a journalist in a vast refugee camp in East Africa come across a newborn child who for some inexplicable reason gives them the impression that it might be just such a seed. But why? And what to do about it?
Trade Review"Mosley is one of the most interesting and gifted English novelists writing today." --New Statesman Mosley's very special talent is for describing the sensations experienced within a cocoon of dismay and terror. Sunday Times (London) Nicholas Mosley is a brilliant novelist who has received nothing like the recognition he deserves--either at home in England or in this country. -- Robert Scholes Saturday Review Philosophical yet quietly intense... World Literature Today
