# The Body Lies

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- Book: [The Body Lies](https://www.bookquiver.com/jo-baker/the-body-lies) ([The Body Lies.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jo-baker/the-body-lies.md))
- Authors: [Jo Baker](https://www.bookquiver.com/jo-baker)
- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 8 h 41 min
- Narrated by: Imogen Church, Deborah McBride, Sam Woolf, Simon Ludders, Julie Maisey
- ISBN: 978-14-7357-181-5
- Published: 2019-06-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 8 h 41 min

## Description

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, 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 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.