Category:

This Immaculate Body: ‘Darkly Funny’ (Oyinkan Braithwaite)

By (author) Emma van Straaten

€15.40

A sensual, unsettling novel from the winner of the inaugural Women’s Prize Discoveries Award – perfect for fans of Sheena Patel, Eliza Clark and Ottessa Moshfegh

Show Book Tags
SKU: 9780349127323

2 in stock

ISBN: 9780349127323

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 256

Dimensions: 12.4 × 2.6 × 19.6 cm

Information about this book

Description

Alice has been cleaning Tom’s flat every Wednesday for a year. With every smudge wiped from his coffee cup, every multivitamin counted from the jar, every crease smoothed out in his bed, Alice spirals deeper into infatuation. But as Alice prepares for the moment when they will finally meet face-to-face, she discovers that love might not be the cure she thought it was…

Told through the eyes of an obsessive protagonist, This Immaculate Body is a literary study of unreliability and unlikability. Exploring alienation and loneliness, class and race, it’s a skilled debut with resonance in the way that we view women, mental health and the lost in society.

Additional information

  • Paperback / softback | 256 pages
  • 12.4 × 2.6 × 19.6 cm | 220
  • 05 February 2026
  • Little, Brown Book Group
  • United Kingdom

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “This Immaculate Body: ‘Darkly Funny’ (Oyinkan Braithwaite)”

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

About the author

Emma van Straaten

1 Published Books

Emma van Straaten is a writer of British-Mauritian heritage living in London with her husband and toddler. 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 daughter was born, she won the inaugural Discoveries Prize with an early partial draft of This I mmaculate Body and has been writing whenever she can, ever since.

Show more