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This Immaculate Body: 'Darkly funny' (Oyinkan Braithwaite)

Emma van Straaten

'Stirring to its very core, This Immaculate Body enthrals beyond measure' LUCY ROSE, author of THE LAMB

'Momentous, kaleidoscopic . . . A wild ride from start to finish' HANAKO FOOTMAN, author of MONGREL

'Stunningly accomplished' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS, author of FUNDAMENTALLY

'Shocking . . . darkly funny' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER

'It's a ride you don't want to end'
COSMOPOLITAN
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Can 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.
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'Obsessive, delusional, disastrous - but so intricately woven with heart, warmth and empathy' ALICE SLATER, author of DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER

'Original, darkly funny and addictive with twists that will leave you reeling' GLAMOUR

'An evocative story that deserves immediate cult status' DAZED

'If this doesn't make you cancel your cleaner, nothing will' THE TIMES

[published in the US under the title Creep]

  • Classification : Thriller, Crime & Mystery
  • Pub Date : FEB 5, 2026
  • Imprint : Fleet
  • Page Extent : 256
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780349127323
  • Price : INR 699
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Emma van Straaten

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.

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