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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Body Lies, The
Author: BAKER JO
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 18/06/2019
Imprint: DOUBLEDAY
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
A dark, thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of LONGBOURN- a work of riveting suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world – or in the pages of a book – when the stakes are dangerously high.
What if you realised the subject your student is studying is you?
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 a main character in his book – and he has written her a horrible 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 layered exploration of violence against women in art, The Body Lies is an essential book for our times.
ISBN: 9780857526441
Pages: 236