Martyn Bedford began his career as a journalist and is the
author of five books for adults, including Acts of Revision, which
won the Yorkshire Post Best First Book Award, The Houdini Girl and
Black Cat. Flip is his first book for teens. He later became the
director of the novel writing programme at the University of
Manchester, as well as fiction critic for the Literary Review.
Martyn currently teaches the creative writing module at Leeds
Trinity University College and is a former Royal Literary Fund
Fellow. He lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, with his family.
Visit Martyn at www.martynbedford.com
Bedford's taut style and psychological insight make Flip a gripping
thriller.
*The Times*
...a brilliant, engrossing, thought provoking, psychological
thriller that was impossible to put down. The key to the novel's
ability to enthral lies in the way in which the author has somehow
managed to identify the teenage psyche and capture the voice of one
with shocking realism.
*www.thebookbag.co.uk*
Interview with author.
*Keighley News*
It’s a well-worn cliché that teenagers sometimes feel they’re in
someone else’s body, and Bedford has followed this idea to its
logical conclusion in his tale of a lad called Alex, who ends up in
the body of a boy called Flip, whose parents give new meaning to
the phrase ‘dysfunctional family’. It’s an unusual idea and
Bedford, a former sub-editor with The Oxford Times who has five
adult novels under his belt, has executed it with consummate skill
in his first book for young adults.
*The Oxford Times*
The story is fast paced and the reasons for the swap were great, it
was done in a different way to any I've seen before but again I'm
not going to give any hints so you'll have to read the book to find
out more. I'd definitely recommend Flip if you're looking for
something a bit different and I'm looking forward to seeing what
Martyn Bedford comes up with in the future.
*Feeling Fictional*
A unique story which will definietly keep it's readers
absorbed.
*Ink Pellet*
This is an absorbing book which makes you think a little
differently.
*Books For Keeps*
Flip is such a brilliant idea, and really well executed...Nothing
is glossed over or fudged: by the end I almost believed it could
really happen (actually, I did believe it could happen whilst I was
reading the book). Every practicality is dealt with – girlfriends,
Alex's complete lack of ability in sports at which Flip excels, and
there are also moments of excruciating horror; the idea of being
forcibly ejected from your own life, but not actually dead, is
terrifying when you look at it closely. Able to see your friends
and family but never recognised by them, never able to really go
home. Flip raises all sorts of labyrinthine questions about what it
really means to be yourself.
*http://katymoran.co.uk/book-review-blog/*
Gripping!
*Ham and High*
A riveting psychological thriller
*Woman's Way*
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