Angus Book Award 2012
Flip by Martyn Bedford
One December night 14-year-old Alex goes to bed. He wakes up to find himself in the wrong bedroom, in an unfamiliar house, in a different part of the country, and it's the middle of June. The family at the breakfast table are total strangers. When he looks in the mirror another boy's face stares back at him. Unless Alex finds out what's happened and how to get back to his own life he may be trapped forever inside a body that belongs to someone else. Questions of identity, the will to survive, and what you're willing to sacrifice to be alive make this extraordinary book difficult to put down.
Martyn grew up in Croydon. After studying journalism he worked as a news reporter, football correspondent, features writer and sub-editor on newspapers. Between jobs he went backpacking in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. Throughout this time he wrote short stories, a couple of abandoned novels, attended creative writing classes and joined a writers’ group. After realising he wanted to be a full time writer he enrolled for the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. When not writing novels he teaches creative writing.