Turnabout

This novel is centered around the lives of two teenage girls, primarily, but also covers events happening to a larger group of people. Some scientists have discovered what they feel is something that will not only stop the aging process but will reverse it. They take a group of very elderly people and get them to agree to being part of the experiment.

The people are given the material and gradually they do stop aging and then start growing younger physically. Too late the scientists find out that the unaging process does away with people's memories and so some of the people end up writing their memories down in "memory books" before they memories vanish from their minds.

The two girls, Melly and Anny Beth, were part of the experiment and have now regressed age-wise until they are teenagers. They need to find someone who will be able to take care of them, though, because they will continue unage and could eventually end up as babies. What happens to them at that point is unknown; whether they will die or start aging normally is unknown.

The girls try to keep a low profile so they won't end up in tabloids or forced to go back to the agency that conducted the experiment, but eventually it seems that someone has tracked them down and they have to deal with that along with what has happened at the agency in the meantime.

This is a "suspension of disbelief" type of novel; in other words, you can read the novel and enjoy it as long as you don't question it too closely. Basically, the problem lies in the unaging process itself. Stopping aging is believable, but having the human body actually become younger physically in a continuing fashion becomes too much to accept (changes would have to be made by almost every single body organ and even the skeletal system).

If you ignore the science problems part, then the novel is actually quite good.

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