# The Family Experiment

**'John Marrs is not to be missed' - Freida McFadden, bestselling author of _The Housemaid_  
  
'Few writers do domestic suspense meets dystopia better than John Marrs' - Lucy Foley, bestselling author of _The Paris Apartment_**  
  
**'The books of John Marrs have become a quiet phenomenon . . . Thoughtful, well written . . . and alarming' - _Daily Mail_**  
  
**Some families are _virtually_ perfect . . .**  
  
The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them.  
  
But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative. For a monthly fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch, accessing them via the Metaverse and a VR headset. To launch this new initiative, the company behind MetaChildren has created a reality TV show. It will follow its contestants as they raise a MetaChild from birth to the age of eighteen, in a condensed nine-month time period. The prize: the right to keep their virtual child - or risk it all for the chance of a real baby . . .  
  
**The Goodreads Choice Award 2024 runner up, _The Family Experiment_ is set in the same universe as John Marrs's bestselling novel _The One_ and _The Marriage Act_. A dark and twisted thriller about the ultimate 'tamagotchi' - a virtual baby.  
  
'Speculative fiction at its best - original, dark and wickedly clever' - C. L. Taylor, author of _Every Move You Make_  
  
'His best yet. Frighteningly plausible, gripping, dark, and so clever' - Claire Douglas, author of _The Woman Who Lied_  
  
'Hurtles towards a chilling denouement - a truly thought-provoking, single-sitting thriller' - Ellery Lloyd, author of _The Club_  
  
'Chilling, inventive, horribly plausible and brilliantly addictive' - C. J. Tudor, author of _The Gathering_**

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