Metamorphosis

Nicholas 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 be prepared into which an appropriate seed for change might fall. In Metamorphosis, a humanitarian worker and a journalist in a refugee camp in East Africa discover a newborn child who for some reason gives them the impression it might be just such a seed.--Nicholas 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 be prepared into which an appropriate seed for change might fall. In Metamorphosis, a humanitarian worker and a journalist in a refugee camp in East Africa discover a newborn child who for some reason gives them the impression it might be just such a seed. But why? And what should be done?   "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 "Mosley's very special talent is for describing the sensations experienced within a cocoon of dismay and terror" - Sunday Times