The Body Lies: ‘A propulsive #Metoo thriller’ GUARDIAN - Couverture rigide

Baker, Jo

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ISBN 10 : 085752643X ISBN 13 : 9780857526434

Editeur : Doubleday, 2019

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

---A GUARDIAN BEST SUMMER READ---

'Gripping and fast-paced' Good Housekeeping

'Powerful and moving' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said/She Said

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 when one of her students 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 battle-of-wits and a disarming exploration of sexual politics, The Body Lies is an essential book for our times.
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'Outstanding' CLARE MACKINTOSH

'A literary exploration of consent, entitlement and how narratives can be bent, misappropriated and wrested back. I loved it' SARAH VAUGHAN

'A propulsive #MeToo thriller.' GUARDIAN

'Gripping. The perfect marriage of risky literary fiction and full-on thriller' MARIA SEMPLE

'Page-turning thriller and examination of how women's bodies are treated, in life and in fiction.' THE BOOKSELLER

'A novelist with a gift for intimate and atmospheric storytelling' FINANCIAL TIMES

'Baker’s heroine is one of the most believable I’ve seen on the page in a long time...nuanced, non-linear, lifelike' TLS

Revue de presse

"A propulsive #MeToo thriller investi­gating consent and male entitlement as well as the borders between truth and fiction." (Guardian)

"Build-up of tension is EXCELLENT" (Daily Mail)

"Packs a powerful punch on every page" (Red Magazine)

"Gripping ... with lots to say about sexual politics" (Good Housekeeping)

"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" (METRO)

"Powerful read" (Prima Magazine)

"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." (MARIA SEMPLE, bestselling author of Where d'ya go, Bernadette?)

"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." (The Bookseller)

"A literary exploration of consent, entitlement and how narratives can be bent, misappropriated and wrested back. I loved it." (SARAH VAUGHAN, bestselling author of THE ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL)

"A shrewdly layered thriller that unflinchingly tackles the quagmire of pressure, judgement and ever-present danger women navigate in their daily lives" (Herald Scotland)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 085752643X
• ISBN 13: 9780857526434
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 288