Small Paperback, Good Condition, 1999, 475 pages, ISBN 0 553 50719 2

The Lazarus Child – Robert Mawson

Struggling to cope with a marriage in difficulty, Jack and Alison Heywood suffer every parent's worst nightmare.  Their two children are involved in a horrific road accident which leaves seven-year-old Frankie in a coma and her elder brother, Ben, severely traumatised.

After three increasingly desperate months, a slender lifeline finally emerges.  The Heywoods hear of an experimental clinic in America run by brilliant neurologist Elizabeth Chase. But her work is high pressure and high risk, pushing at he very limits of medical practice. As the Heywoods arrive at the clinic besieged - by the law, the media and the medical establishment. Against this volatile backdrop, and with time running out for both Frankie and Ben, it soon becomes apparent that only a supreme act of sacrifice can make a miracle happen...

"A truly gripping read... full of exquisite and intense nail-biting and stomach wrenching tension" – Sydney Morning Herald