The Treatment: the gripping twist-filled YA thriller from the million copy Sunday Times bestselling author of The Escape

The Treatment: the gripping twist-filled YA thriller from the million copy Sunday Times bestselling author of The Escape
C.L. Taylor

‘This gripping book will keep you hooked, whatever your age.’ Fabulous magazineThe stunning YA debut thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Escape.“You have to help me. We’re not being reformed. We’re being brainwashed.”All sixteen year old Drew Finch wants is to be left alone. She's not interested in spending time with her mum and stepdad and when her disruptive fifteen year old brother Mason is expelled from school for the third time and sent to a residential reform academy she's almost relieved.Everything changes when she's followed home from school by the mysterious Dr Cobey, who claims to have a message from Mason. There is something sinister about the ‘treatment’ he is undergoing. The school is changing people.Determined to help her brother, Drew must infiltrate the Academy and unearth its deepest, darkest secrets.Before it’s too late.

C.L. TAYLOR is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Accident, The Lie, The Missing and The Escape. Her books have sold over a million copies in the UK and have been translated into twenty-one languages. She lives in Bristol with her partner and son.

By the C.L. Taylor

The Accident

The Lie

The Missing

The Escape

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Ebook Edition © October 2017 ISBN: 9780008240578

Version: 2018-05-23

For my niece Sophie Taylor

Contents

Cover (#ub4f52b93-89bd-53eb-82ea-1f9ba0ec957e)

About the Author (#ud27d4d95-68c8-5851-862e-33612e53c66d)

Booklist (#u2860a748-e3c5-5015-8d65-c1bdca1a5e7f)

Title Page (#ua82b3004-9a80-5d45-b0b7-5b4b127465d2)

Copyright (#ulink_d39371d1-3be0-54b5-8c5c-59510e0721aa)

Dedication (#u35f3cf4e-4432-56a5-ad78-2b67d9162941)

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Chapter Two (#ulink_aaa82f2e-31d7-5d2a-9f69-182f0a871502)

Chapter Three (#ulink_1f164bab-ca46-5935-a664-fe98b14a8096)

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Chapter Seven (#ulink_b93b684d-e512-5a6f-8f06-b66843f7afb3)

Chapter Eight (#ulink_362235e8-104e-5c58-b147-12ffa5e90cb5)

Chapter Nine (#ulink_0ac5c87f-2532-5a10-b495-99b08483c8ad)

Chapter Ten (#ulink_4db8af53-be85-5e44-9d35-3cea990015fa)

Chapter Eleven (#ulink_ca3d76f0-be54-5585-baf4-160a3603d1fb)

Chapter Twelve (#ulink_7b26cf95-72ea-5e86-ab3d-cfcc0e657abf)

Chapter Thirteen (#ulink_708f2899-c313-5d00-9c07-c44d142990aa)

Chapter Fourteen (#ulink_a28c6780-f281-5b5f-8aff-e8012a984a37)

Chapter Fifteen (#ulink_1c85765a-77b7-5c16-a3b1-a3c77f251d43)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)