Body Tourists: The gripping, thought-provoking new novel from the Booker-longlisted author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb

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'Her observation of our species is tender, precise, illuminating' Hilary Mantel

THE NEW NOVEL BY THE BOOKER LONGLISTED AND ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE TESTAMENT OF JESSIE LAMB

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'An ambitious and important writer' New York Times

'Unputdownable and often thought-provoking' Sunday Times

'Grimly plausible' Guardian

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

MORE PRAISE FOR JANE ROGERS AND BODY TOURISTS:

'Gripping' Mail on Sunday

'Very much a novel about human nature . . . an insightful examination of the things people truly value' SciFi Now

'A wonderfully versatile novelist' Penelope Lively

'Rogers' prose flows elegantly and with effortless power' Observer

'A compulsive and compelling slice of fiction' Sunday Express

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Her observation of our species is tender, precise, illuminating

Jane Rogers is a wonderfully versatile novelist

An ambitious and important writer - The New York Times

Cuts to the bone - The Sunday Times

Rogers has never been afraid to expose the dark underside of people's psyches, their shoddy motives and secret compulsions - Guardian

Roger's prose flows elegantly and with effortless power - Observer

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

Author Bio

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.