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.
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 * METRO * Gripping ... with lots to say about sexual politics * Good Housekeeping * Packs a powerful punch on every page * Red Magazine * Build-up of tension is EXCELLENT * Daily Mail * A propulsive #MeToo thriller investi gating consent and male entitlement as well as the borders between truth and fiction. * Guardian *