# Written on the Body

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- Authors: [Jeanette Winterson](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeanette-winterson)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9959-827-5
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2021-05-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' The Times In a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive passions, but the first to have broken their heart. With Louise's husband, Elgin, blocking love's course, their affair is doomed to unravel - until, that is, a terrible choice must be made. With its witty and masterful prose, Written on the Body takes the reader on a beguiling and defying exploration of love and its physical forms. 'An ambitious work, at once a love story and a philosophical meditation on the body' Sunday Telegraph