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The Body Lies

โ€˜A propulsive #Metoo thrillerโ€™ GUARDIAN
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Length 8 hours 40 minutes
Language English
Narrators 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, itโ€™s meant to be a fresh start, away from the big city and the scene of a violent assault sheโ€™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.

JO BAKER is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling LONGBOURN and A COUNTRY ROAD, A TREE. Her new novel, THE BODY LIES, is a thrilling contemporary novel that explores violence against women in fiction but is also a disarming story of sexual politics. Jo Baker lives with her family in Lancashire.

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ISBN:
9781473571815

Length:
8 hours 40 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Transworld

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Edition:
Unabridged

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Reviews

A propulsive #MeToo thriller investiยญgating 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 Bakerโ€™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 Expand reviews
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