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The Body Lies

‘A propulsive #Metoo thriller’ GUARDIAN

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The Body Lies

Di: Jo Baker
Letto da: Imogen Church, Deborah McBride, Sam Woolf, Simon Ludders, Julie Maisey
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Body Lies by Jo Baker, read by Imogen Church, Deborah McBride, Sam Woolf, Simon Ludders and Julie Maisey.

A layered and thrilling suspense novel that grapples with how to live as a woman in the modern world - or in the pages of a book - when the stakes are dangerously high.


When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it’s meant to be a fresh start, away from the big city and the scene of a violent assault she’s desperate to forget. But despite the distractions of a new life and single motherhood, her nerves continue to jangle. To make matters worse, a vicious debate about violence against women inflames the tensions and mounting rivalries in her creative writing group.

When a troubled student starts sending in chapters from his novel that blur the lines between fiction and reality, the professor recognises herself as the main character in his book - and he has written her a horrific fate.

Will she be able to stop life imitating art before it's too late?

At once a breathless cat-and-mouse game and a disarming exploration of sexual politics, The Body Lies is an essential book for our times.

Donne detective Narrativa di crimini Narrativa di genere Narrativa letteraria Poliziesco Psicologico Suspense Thriller e suspense
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Recensioni della critica

A propulsive #MeToo thriller investi­gating consent and male entitlement as well as the borders between truth and fiction.
Build-up of tension is EXCELLENT
Packs a powerful punch on every page
Gripping ... with lots to say about sexual politics
This superior thriller looks at how novels represent violence through the story of a creative writing teacher who finds herself trapped between the borders of life and fiction after recognising herself in a story written by one of her students
Powerful read
Jo Baker’s THE BODY LIES is gripping and strange in the best possible way: the perfect marriage of risky literary fiction and full-on thriller.
This page-turning thrilller has a sympathetic and utterly believable heroine, but it's also an examination of how women's bodies are treated, in life and in fiction.
A literary exploration of consent, entitlement and how narratives can be bent, misappropriated and wrested back. I loved it.
A shrewdly layered thriller that unflinchingly tackles the quagmire of pressure, judgement and ever-present danger women navigate in their daily lives
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