Organ Music

A short novel, ideal for reluctant boy readers, from a long-standing, accomplished and incredibly versatile author which begins with a chilling ride in a ghostly, pre-programmed car.

The book invites its readers to consider serious questions of bioethics, genetic experimentation and the expendibility of human life, particularly whether our own anti-social behaviour might justify our use as genetic raw material for the benefit of law-abiding others.

Mahy peoples her novel with ordinary boys, from normal backgrounds, with family issues, in an ordinary town, who encounter extraordinary circumstances, and while almost all can be explained by the secret scientific experimentation, she leaves readers with a ghostly girl whose 'existence' is inexplicable, except possibly as a figment of two overwrought teenage imaginations.