This Immaculate Body
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'It bleeds, burns and beguiles, and asks you, dear reader, to give in to obsession. Truly, a religious experience' LUCY ROSE, author of THE LAMB'Shocking . . . darkly funny' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER'An evocative story that deserves immediate cult status' DAZEDCan you climb inside a stranger's life and make him love you?Alice knows every detail of Tom's life. She has taken a side hustle as a cleaner just to feel close to him, to wipe every smudge from his coffee cups, smooth every crease of his bed, read every email in his inbox. She is in love. And Tom will love her too - once he has met her. While Alice masterminds the bone-shattering romance she knows they will have, she tries to morph into the woman Tom will want. And when this happens, no one - not her mother, not her sister, not her sneering co-workers - will be able to look down on her anymore.'Original, darkly funny and addictive with twists that will leave you reeling' GLAMOUR'Stunningly accomplished' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS, author of FUNDAMENTALLY'A momentous, kaleidoscopic portrait of a woman on the edge. A wild ride from start to finish' HANAKO FOOTMAN, author of MONGREL'Obsessive, delusional, disastrous - but so intricately woven with heart, warmth and empathy' ALICE SLATER, author of DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER'If this doesn't make you cancel your cleaner, nothing will' THE TIMES
Emma van Straaten is a writer of British-Mauritian heritage living in London with her husband and two daughters. Born in Lewisham, she grew up on the Sussex coast, headed north to Durham to study English Literature, and is now happily surrounded by books working at The London Library. In 2021, days after her first child was born, she won the inaugural Discoveries Prize with an early partial draft of This Immaculate Body and has been writing whenever she can, ever since.