Off Target with Eve Smith and The Writing Community Chat Show.

<p>Longlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize and described by British bookshop chain Waterstones as: "an exciting new voice in crime fiction", <a href="https://www.evesmithauthor.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Eve Smith</strong></a>'s debut novel <a href="https://www.evesmithauthor.com/the-waiting-rooms" target="_blank"><strong>The Waiting Rooms</strong></a> was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award and was selected as a Book of the Month in The Guardian just after launch.</p> <p>"Smith combines the excitement of a medical thriller à la Michael Crichton with sensitive characterisation and social insight in a timely debut novel all the more remarkable for being conceived and written before the current pandemic."</p> <p>Eve writes speculative fiction with a splash of Thriller thrown in. Her latest novel Off Target is chilling page turner set In an all-too-possible near future, when genetic engineering has become the norm for humans, not just crops, parents are prepared to take incalculable risks to ensure that their babies are perfect … altering genes that may cause illness, and more…</p> <p>She attributes her love of all things dark and dystopian to a childhood watching Tales of the Unexpected and black-and-white Edgar Allen Poe double bills.</p> <p><a href="https://www.evesmithauthor.com/preorder-off-target" target="_blank"><strong>OFF TARGET</strong></a>:</p> <p>A longed-for baby</p> <p>An unthinkable decision</p> <p>A deadly mistake</p> <p>In an all-too-possible near future, when genetic engineering has become the norm for humans, not just crops, parents are prepared to take incalculable risks to ensure that their babies are perfect … altering genes that may cause illness, and more…</p> <p>Susan has been trying for a baby for years, and when an impulsive one-night stand makes her dream come true, she’ll do anything to keep her daughter and ensure her husband doesn’t find out … including the unthinkable. She believes her secret is safe. For now.</p> <p>But as governments embark on a perilo