Body Double

Brossura, 224 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 12 Marzo 2026 da Scribe UK.

ISBN:: 978-1-917189-51-4

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A surreal thriller that blurs the lines between lies and truth, between the selves we conceal and the faces we show the world.

As winter descends and the city fills with the scent of woodsmoke, a young transcriber follows the same routine each day. She collects tapes from a ghostwriter’s office, stops for an espresso and croissant, and returns home to type out the voices of strangers ― stories that will become someone else’s novels. Her solitary life is predictable, unremarkable … until the day she hears something different on the tapes: a message meant only for her.

Across the city, two women, Laura and Naomi, accidentally swap coats at a department store cafe. This brief encounter sparks something electric and strange, and soon, Laura has moved in with Naomi. As the days pass, she begins to mirror her more and more closely ― her gestures, her habits, her very …

A surreal thriller that blurs the lines between lies and truth, between the selves we conceal and the faces we show the world.

As winter descends and the city fills with the scent of woodsmoke, a young transcriber follows the same routine each day. She collects tapes from a ghostwriter’s office, stops for an espresso and croissant, and returns home to type out the voices of strangers ― stories that will become someone else’s novels. Her solitary life is predictable, unremarkable … until the day she hears something different on the tapes: a message meant only for her.

Across the city, two women, Laura and Naomi, accidentally swap coats at a department store cafe. This brief encounter sparks something electric and strange, and soon, Laura has moved in with Naomi. As the days pass, she begins to mirror her more and more closely ― her gestures, her habits, her very essence. Slowly, deliberately, Laura starts to take over Naomi’s life.

Meanwhile, the transcriber makes a disturbing discovery: she is beginning to disappear …

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Two women meet in a department store, move in together, and their lives quickly become creepely enmeshed. Meanwhile, a transcriber for a ghostwriter, hears a disturbing message recorded for her on one of the tapes. It is a mystery that is not much of a mystery (and is probably not supposed to be), riffing off David Lynch's movies and predictable hard boilers to say something about what it means to be us, to exist outside of our relations with others. What this something is, isn't entirely clear, and maybe that's OK, too. But somehow I found the various strands of the book weren't entirely working together, some parts felt boring and pretentious, other gripping and ironic in a quite charming way.

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