About the book…
Rosa’s got a whole new shot at life…in someone else’s body.
Rosa—an eighteen-year-old from London—is quadriplegic. Her doting (if a bit stifling) parents and charming older brother are her entire world. But Rosa yearns for more; so when a doctor from Boston chooses her to be a candidate for a risky experimental surgery, she and her family move to Massachusetts in search of a miracle.
Sylvia—a girl from a small town in New England—is brain-dead. Her parents have donated Sylvia’s body to Rosa’s cause. Rosa wakes up from surgery as the first successful brain transplant survivor—by all accounts, a medical anomaly. She should be ecstatic, but she can’t help wondering with increasing obsession who Sylvia was and what her life was like.
Rosa’s fascination with her new body and her desire to understand Sylvia prompt a road trip based on discovery and a surprising new romance.
But will Rosa be able to solve the dilemma of her identity?
Who is she, in another girl’s body?
I gratefully received a copy of this book courtesy of Lovereading4kids in return for an honest review, ‘She Myself And I’is available in e-book, hardcover, paperback and audio book formats.
An engaging and involving read,I genuinely found myself connecting with the main character, Rosa.
She is a fully realised character we meet at the time of her experimental surgery to transplant her brain into the body of a girl, Sylvia, who is brain dead.
Having fallen in a reservoir at temperatures that effectively kept her in a perfect, hypothermic state, Sylvia is almost the right age and build for Rosa’s brain to be transplanted into.
The story itself shows how Rosa comes to terms with her ‘Frankenstein’s daughter’ body (her mother is the doctor who accelerated permission to be granted for this procedure), and how she feels a connection to Sylvia,
Everyone around her perceives it as a miracle , however, Rosa struggles with the concept of ‘just because we can, should we?’ elements of science.
Is she a secret from the world or a gift of hope?
It is a really well told story that I was grateful to have the opportunity to read.
*Suitable for older teen readers due to subject/mild swearing/short sex scene*.
About the author…
Emma Young is an award-winning science and health journalist and author. She has a BSc (Hons) in psychology from the University of Durham and 20 years’ experience working on titles including the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and New Scientist, for which she worked as a senior online reporter in London and Australasian Editor in Sydney. Now employed by the British Psychological Society as a Staff Writer, she also writes freelance articles and books.
Links-https://emmayoung.net/
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@EmmaELYoung
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