This was a very interesting book first of all it is British, so the vocabulary is different than what I am use to, second you do not learn till the end that there is an alien element to the story. Jasper has grown up in a room, that he has never left, had never seen another human, and is taken care of by "the voice". The Voice gives him tasks to do on a computer, makes sure there are clothes and food for him when he wakes up, but one day The Voice drops him in a forest and tells him to run, he is in danger. This is the beginning of Jasper's adventure, that has him befriending a homeless person, running from New Dawn, and ending up in an orphanage. The Voice tries to help him along the way as does a girl from the orphanage. What he learns at the end of the book, will have you saying, "What?". Then asking how long do I have to wait for the next one.