Alex is fourteen and lives at home with his parents and his younger brother, a pretty normal existence for any teenager…until he wakes up one morning to discover he is not in his own bedroom. His hands look like someone else’s, his body has more muscles and when he looks in the mirror he gets the shock of his life! How is it possible that he has become another teenager, it seems overnight, called Phillip, or Flip? And if he’s Flip – where’s Alex? Alex finds himself in a life and death quest to return to his true self or be trapped forever in the wrong life. Martyn Bedford is the author of five adult novels and has had numerous short stories published in anthologies, newspapers and magazines. Flip is his first book for teens. A graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, he currently teaches on the English and Writing programme at Leeds Trinity University College. Before becoming a writer and teacher, Martyn worked for thirteen years as a journalist in regional newspapers around the UK. He lives in West Yorkshire, with his wife and two daughters.
Judges: “Flip swept us all along. Thanks to Martyn Bedford’s masterly balance of tension and wit, this unique fusion of the surreal and the everyday proved utterly convincing.”
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