When it comes to books about people who've been transplanted into someone else's body I've pretty much read them all. I've read so many of them I can almost perfectly predict the plot a few pages before the next major event happens. While I was reading Martyn Bedford's first teen novel, Flip, I was in a little bit of a state of shock. Almost the whole way through I thought I knew what was about to happen next, only to be proven totally and completely wrong. I just kept on getting it wrong, which made for a very gripping book I just could not put down – I read it in one sitting!

Fourteen-year-old Alex waking up in someone else's bed, in someone else's body was what I had expected, but the similarity stops there.

The book has really been thought out in that every tiny detail of Alex, or "Philip's" new life had been exactly thought out, along with every detail of what Alex would have to deal with being in a body he is not used to, from having to walk someone else's legs down the stairs to how Alex feels when he finds out what happened to his own body.

A special mention has to go out to Cherry, one of the girls Alex encounters in his new life as Phillip, or "Flip" as he is known to his "friends". It is worth reading the book just for her; she is so sweet, curious and lovely, I wish she would climb out of the book and be my friend too!