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'The concept is so original and so gripping that I can't get it out of my head... Joe with an E encourages the reader to explore questions about gender, identity, family and belonging all through a page-turning adventure.' Sarah Hagger-Holt, author of Nothing Ever Happens Here and The Fights That Make Us Britain is populated by genetically engineered neuts - no males, no females. Joe is a boy - an anomaly who should have been destroyed in the pregnancy pod, or given corrective surgery as soon as he was born. Rescued by DiG, an underground network, he's nurtured to full-term and handed over to his parents. His differences must be kept hidden. But now his body is changing, it won't be possible to pass as a neut for much longer. The heart-wrenching decision is made - he must go to the island, where there's a secret community of others like him. The perilous journey to get there isn't the end of Joe's troubles. It's just the start.

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'The concept is so original and so gripping that I can't get it out of my head... Joe with an E encourages the reader to explore questions about gender, identity, family and belonging all through a page-turning adventure. The world of the book is both similar and different enough to our own that the story feels disorientingly real and supremely relevant.' - Sarah Hagger-Holt, author of Nothing Ever Happens Here and The Fights That Make Us 'At Joe with an E's core is a clever, convincing concept of reversal with echoes of Noughts and Crosses but in terms of gender identity instead of race. This disturbing dystopia offers so much more as well. Through his eponymous protagonist, Joe, his parents, new friends Nats and Cain, and many more absorbing allies and villains, Paul Rand immerses you fully and skilfully into Joe's unnervingly plausible world.' - Jennifer Burkinshaw, author of Happiness Seeker and Igloo 'A group of young people are trapped in a future where acceptance comes at the price of life-changing surgery. Paul Rand's dystopian thriller is thought-provoking and gripping by turns, with the science of genetics and fertility cleverly woven into an adrenaline-fuelled quest for survival.' - K E Salisbury, author of The Face That Pins You

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