2007-01-12 Read this book

Unique is billed as a book for children, but it is one of the new generation of books for children that cross over effortlessly into adult literature.

And it's far ahead of the rest of the pack - Rowling and Pullman included. Alison Allen-Gray has real strengths in both characterisation and plot - and she has taken on a big and important theme here, human cloning. Her treatment of it is fascinating.

Read it, and give it to your friends. You won't be disappointed.