Genesis - Bernard Beckett

Anax is about to face her examination for the Academy, the institution which safeguards her society. The subject is close to her heart: Adam, a man whose struggle transformed the course of her country.
But the examination by the panel will reveal new twists to Adam's history. Twists that will undermine Anax's assumptions about her country and who she is. But why is the Academy allowing Anax to open up the enigma at its heart?
All young people will identify with Anax as she faces the most important examination of her life; she is on the brink of her future and discovering a new world.
Beckett unlocks this beautifully wrought story about the human soul and artificial intelligence in an ingenious and devastating denouement.