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Body Tourists
- Author
- Jane Rogers
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 14 November 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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What to expect
In this version of London, there is a small, private clinic. Behind its layers of security, procedures are taking place on poor, robust teenagers from northern Estates in exchange for thousands of pounds - procedures that will bring the wealthy dead back to life in these young supple bodies for fourteen days.
It's an opportunity for wrongs to be righted, for fathers to meet grandsons, for scientists to see their work completed. Old wine in new bottles.
But at what cost?
The first chapter of Body Tourists will be broadcast on Radio 4 on June 4th, 2019, and available online subsequently.
(P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Critics Review
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Her observation of our species is tender, precise, illuminating
Hilary Mantel
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Unputdownable and often thought-provoking
Sunday Times
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Grimly plausible . . . Moving
Guardian
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Rogers has never been afraid to expose the dark underside of people's psyches, their shoddy motives and secret compulsions
Guardian
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Gripping and thought-provoking
Mail on Sunday
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[A] compulsive and compelling slice of fiction
Sunday Express
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Body Tourists is very much a novel about human nature. Told through a variety of different perspectives . . . the novel is an insightful examination of the things people truly value
SciFi Now
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Jane Rogers is a wonderfully versatile novelist
Penelope Lively
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An ambitious and important writer
New York Times
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Rogers' prose flows elegantly and with effortless power
Observer
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A clever, bold and entertaining novel with serious undercurrents concerning medical ethics, class privilege, deprivation and manipulation
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As the trials are marred by unforeseen battles between will and flesh, tantalising moral questions are raised about gender, class, race, mortality and the pursuit of ever smarter, ever more human artificial intelligence.
Bookanista
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An extraordinary novel about an ordinary situation - the unravelling of a marriage
The Times
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Brilliantly done - a sustained exploration of the polarities at the enduring heart of love
Guardian
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A literary dystopia that packs an emotional punch . . . The novel does not set up an elaborate apocalypse, but astringently strips away the smears hiding the apocalypses we really face.
Independent on Sunday
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Beautifully constructed and controlled . . . an absorbing, nuanced drama about moral choices and personal responsibility
Sunday Telegraph
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A voyage of self-discovery that is eloquent, lucid and entirely enthralling
Daily Mail
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A startling and gripping exploration of love, grief, responsibility and power that moves effortlessly from the personal - the pain of a woman who has recently lost her father - to one of the most hotly debated and emotive issues of the moment, the plight of asylum seekers . . . A wonderfully humane and vividly written story that will keep you entranced until the last page
Red Magazine
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A triumphant creation . . . the authorial voice has a chameleon quality; she speaks with tongues. And the tongue here is persuasive indeed
Independent
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Rogers' use of genuine historical detail is brilliant, she knows exactly what to use, and when to stop.
Canberra Times
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Cuts to the bone
Sunday Times
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Details
- Author
- Jane Rogers
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 8 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 November 2019
- ISBN
- 9781529392999
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Speculative fiction, Science fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Youth is wasted on the young, isn't it?In this version of London, there is a small, private clinic. Behind its layers of security, procedures are taking place on poor, robust teenagers from northern Estates in exchange for thousands of pounds - procedures that will bring the wealthy dead back to life in these young supple bodies for fourteen days. It's an opportunity for wrongs to be righted, for fathers to meet grandsons, for scientists to see their work completed. Old wine in new bottles.But at what cost?The first chapter of Body Tourists will be broadcast on Radio 4 on June 4th, 2019, and available online subsequently. (P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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