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The Boy With the 40 Year Old Brain
A 40 year old heart attack victim wakes up in a hospital bed to find his perfectly functioning brain has been transplanted into the head of a 7 year old, brain dead boy. The horrified man has to quickly adapt before the unsuspecting mother of the boy, Tom, who’s body he now occupies, comes to take him home.
Unprepared for how beautiful Rose, the boy’s mother is, he struggles to overcome his emotions and his feelings for the woman, who, for all intents and purposes, is his own mother.
An evil billionaire paedophile, with just a short time to live, had funded a brilliant brain surgeon’s experiments on Tom for his own selfish needs. Now with the success of the procedure he was ready to put his plan into action whereby he would murder a healthy boy in order to relive his own life from childhood.
With the help of his mother, her dysfunctional sister, his nurse and the strange girl from next door, Tom sets out on a strange and perilous journey of attrition in order to thwart the evil paedophile’s plan to import children from an East European orphanage and use them in his scheme to attain his lost youth. Along the way, they are subjected to a voyage of pain, laughter, tears and ultimate tragedy, as they each strive to overcome their own personal emotions.
This is a sensitive story of a man trapped in the body of a young child. He finds himself in a situation that he neither asked for nor wanted. However as there is no way to rectify the predicament in which he finds himself. He has no alternative but to make the best of it.
His pathetic attempts to hide his true feelings from the boy’s mother, result in, some, often funny, sometimes ridiculous, but from his point of view, always embarrassing and sad dilemmas. But though there are some intimate moments in the book which the man in the boy uses every ploy he can to distance himself from. There is, apart from a failed rape attempt, and some innuendo, absolutely no real sexual content at all.
This is a bitter sweet story of a man who finds himself in an impossible situation and a woman who is totally impervious to the truth, preferring to indulge herself in the joy of being reunited with a son whom she thought was lost to her. The interaction between him, the man, and her, the boy’s mother, is absolutely necessary for the story to succeed. The intimate moments between them are tender rather than perverse and his struggle to hide his true feeling, though often funny, are really quite sad and I must stress, there is absolutely, no incest involved. The section where the mother bathes her son and removes her clothes to join him in the shower, is put in to show the reader how difficult it is for the man/boy to cope with the situation in which he has, involuntarily, found himself. He and the woman are, from all intents and purposes, strangers. She doesn’t know that he is not her son, whilst he, on the other hand does. Furthermore he is actually nearer her age. Is it any wonder that, put in that impossible situation, he is unable, try as he may, to prevent himself from getting aroused.
It is hoped that the reader will scratch the surface of the story, and look deeper at the strange but sad moments as the man/boy struggles to hide his true feelings whilst the unsuspecting woman, his mother, simply adds to them by imposing her considerable charms on him. However, he always triumphs eventually and emerges with his reputation intact. Meanwhile, her blissful unawareness and charming ignorance continue to flourish until near the end of the book when, tragically, the bitter truth finally comes out.
The reader should not, however, look upon this as just a story of a relationship between a boy and his mother. There are other characters in the book including villains and heroes/heroines.
Unprepared for how beautiful Rose, the boy’s mother is, he struggles to overcome his emotions and his feelings for the woman, who, for all intents and purposes, is his own mother.
An evil billionaire paedophile, with just a short time to live, had funded a brilliant brain surgeon’s experiments on Tom for his own selfish needs. Now with the success of the procedure he was ready to put his plan into action whereby he would murder a healthy boy in order to relive his own life from childhood.
With the help of his mother, her dysfunctional sister, his nurse and the strange girl from next door, Tom sets out on a strange and perilous journey of attrition in order to thwart the evil paedophile’s plan to import children from an East European orphanage and use them in his scheme to attain his lost youth. Along the way, they are subjected to a voyage of pain, laughter, tears and ultimate tragedy, as they each strive to overcome their own personal emotions.
This is a sensitive story of a man trapped in the body of a young child. He finds himself in a situation that he neither asked for nor wanted. However as there is no way to rectify the predicament in which he finds himself. He has no alternative but to make the best of it.
His pathetic attempts to hide his true feelings from the boy’s mother, result in, some, often funny, sometimes ridiculous, but from his point of view, always embarrassing and sad dilemmas. But though there are some intimate moments in the book which the man in the boy uses every ploy he can to distance himself from. There is, apart from a failed rape attempt, and some innuendo, absolutely no real sexual content at all.
This is a bitter sweet story of a man who finds himself in an impossible situation and a woman who is totally impervious to the truth, preferring to indulge herself in the joy of being reunited with a son whom she thought was lost to her. The interaction between him, the man, and her, the boy’s mother, is absolutely necessary for the story to succeed. The intimate moments between them are tender rather than perverse and his struggle to hide his true feeling, though often funny, are really quite sad and I must stress, there is absolutely, no incest involved. The section where the mother bathes her son and removes her clothes to join him in the shower, is put in to show the reader how difficult it is for the man/boy to cope with the situation in which he has, involuntarily, found himself. He and the woman are, from all intents and purposes, strangers. She doesn’t know that he is not her son, whilst he, on the other hand does. Furthermore he is actually nearer her age. Is it any wonder that, put in that impossible situation, he is unable, try as he may, to prevent himself from getting aroused.
It is hoped that the reader will scratch the surface of the story, and look deeper at the strange but sad moments as the man/boy struggles to hide his true feelings whilst the unsuspecting woman, his mother, simply adds to them by imposing her considerable charms on him. However, he always triumphs eventually and emerges with his reputation intact. Meanwhile, her blissful unawareness and charming ignorance continue to flourish until near the end of the book when, tragically, the bitter truth finally comes out.
The reader should not, however, look upon this as just a story of a relationship between a boy and his mother. There are other characters in the book including villains and heroes/heroines.
526 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 25, 2011
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