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Joe with an E

Paul Rand

Joe with an E

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June 13, 2024
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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

Synopsis

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.

Product Information

Number of pages
402
Publisher
Beaten Track Publishing
#ISBN
Number of pages
9781786456427
Date of Publication
June 13, 2024
Format
Paperback
Weight
320
g
Dimensions
3.1
x
19.9
x
12.8
cm

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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

About the author

Paul Rand

Paul Rand grew up in Hampshire, UK but has now lived well over half his life in the North of England – in Yorkshire and Cumbria. After thirteen years working as an engineer, he retrained to work as a secondary school maths teacher. Paul currently teaches part-time, and when he’s not teaching or writing, he’s probably doing something for the Methodist church of which his wife is the minister.
Paul and his family like to holiday on small islands, both at home and abroad, preferring islands that are a little off the beaten track. They have enjoyed several holidays on the Isle of Muck, which is the inspiration for the island in Joe with an E.

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