Flowers for Algernon Condition:Very Good ' A remarkable debut novel'

' A remarkable debut novel' Sunday Times 'The best historical thriller I've read in twenty years' A

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A strange epidemic had broken out -- mice everywhere were covered in weird blue spots

Flowers for Algernon Condition:Very Good ' A remarkable debut novel'Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the treatment turns him into a genius. Then Algernon begins to fade. What will become of Charlie?