Blueprint - A biotech thriller

"I don't like the word clone. I prefer to call myself blueprint."
Imagination based on reality forms a crucial part of a scientist's life. It means uncovering masses of details and then juggling creatively with the results. Roche aims to offer every month inspiration from a selected biotech thriller giving a chance to win one of 50 DVDs of the respective biotech thriller. The February Imaginality Thriller is Blueprint by Charlotte Kerner and it's based on reproductive cloning.
"Blueprint" is the biography of the adult clone Siri Sellin: The highly gifted, but incurably ill 30-year old Iris Sellin decides to have herself cloned, bring this clone, her "twin", into the world and thereby prolong her life through this identical child. "Blueprint" presents the devastating psychological consequences for the clone Siri: she is not unique and her clone is her mother. Only with the death of Iris is she finally able to find her own identity.