An unbelievable but thought-provoking book in today’s world of cloning and organ transplants.

Issues about animal rights, and our responsibilities to nature and the environment.The author reveals the plot of the story slowly, focusing more on the relationships and the feelings of Eva. It raises all kinds of existential issues. The plot is set in the future, in a world where scientists have highly advanced technologyThe relationship between humanity and nature, destructive exploitation of animals, are the primary themes of the book. Her operation and recovery were sponsored by a manufacturer of commercial products, in a way exploiting her to advertise their products.As Eva recovers and adjusts to her new life, she begins to identify with the chimpanzees, leading her to resist her handlers, her parents and manufacturers, for greater autonomy for herself and her fellow chimps.REVIEWPeter Dickinson takes us to a fascinating journey of a young girl, told through the eyes of Eva, the main character. She had to learn how to use the chimp’s body to move and communicate with other chimps.Eva’s father is a research scientist of captive chimps with whom Eva was raised and grew up. Eva’s body was so seriously damaged that the only way doctors can save her life is to do surgery and transplant her mind into the body of Kelly, a chimpanzee.When Eva wakes up in the hospital bed, she can’t move and can only watch the shaper, a futuristic TV, or look out the window. Read moreĪ story of a young girl, Eva, who awakens from a coma after a terrible car accident, to discover that her mind, has been transplanted into the body of a female chimpanzee. The recipient of many awards, Dickinson has been shortlisted nine times for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for children’s literature and was the first author to win it twice. The author of twenty-one crime and mystery novels for adults, Dickinson was also the first to win the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers’ Association for two books running: The Glass-Sided Ants’ Nest (1968) and The Old English Peepshow (1969).Ī collection of Dickinson’s poetry, The Weir, was published in 2007. His latest book, In the Palace of the Khans, was published in 2012 and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal.ĭickinson has served as chairman of the Society of Authors and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2009 for services to literature. His books have been published in several languages throughout the world.

From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff of Punch, and since then has earned his living writing fiction of various kinds for children and adults. Peter Dickinson was born in Africa but raised and educated in England.

Eva by peter dickinson