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Written on the body

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'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' The TimesIn 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

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Vintage
0099598272 / 9780099598275
Paperback / softback
823.92
04/09/2014
United Kingdom
English
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190 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1992.