Body Tourists: The gripping, thought-provoking new novel from the Booker-longlisted author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Jane Rogers
Nov 2019 · Sceptre · Narrated by David Timson, Heather Long, Luke Thompson, Sandra Duncan, Sophie Roberts, and Vivienne Rochester
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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
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
About the author
Jane Rogers has published nine novels, written original television and radio drama, and adapted work (her own and others') for radio and TV. Her novels include Conrad and Eleanor, The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Mr Wroe's Virgins, Island, and The Voyage Home. Writing awards include the Arthur C Clarke Award, Somerset Maugham Award, Writers' Guild Best Fiction Book, BAFTA nomination best drama serial, Guardian Fiction Prize runner up and Arts Council Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches the Faber Short Story Writing course.
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