The Chrysalids
Author: John Wyndham
A world paralysed by genetic mutation, , John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations…..Read More
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