THE CHRYSALIDS
by John Wyndham
I wish I’d written this ...
... because it's evocative and has a sprinkling of magic!
I was surprised to discover that I’d never read this before. I thought I’d devoured everything Wyndham wrote. I have no idea how I managed to overlook it, and I’m sad that I did, because I have the feeling that if I’d read this during my teens it would have become one of those novels that sticks in the memory with a sprinkling of magic. It may well be the author’s best, hard to put down, effortlessly increasing my reading speed. True, the fact that its narrator begins as a child and is a young adult by the end makes it feel a little like a novel aimed at teens, but there’s plenty to chew on as an adult, and the theme of religious intolerance remains a sadly pertinent one. Great stuff.
From the publisher
A world paralysed by genetic mutation
John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations.
