This is a strange book, but that's exactly what Kevin Brooks intended. Mr Brooks does not do 'normal' and this is what makes him such an intriguing novelist.
Being is a challenging story for older teens who enjoy something unusual. Prepare to come face to face with with ideas you've never considered. Being is a book like no other.
Robert Smith knows exactly who he is and how he has got to this point in his life.
The 16-year-old knows that his mother didn't want him and abandoned him in a pram outside a hospital soon after he was born.
Or, at least, that is the story he has been told.
Considering the circumstances of his birth and that the first sixteen years of his life were spent moving from one foster home to another, Robert is growing up to be a remarkably well-adjusted young man. But suddenly, all that changes.