Foreign Bodies

· Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by Katherine Press
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At eighteen, Emma Kenward runs away from her dull Sloane home to try her luck as a painter in Tuscany. Waspish, idealistic and far too clever for her own good, she is at the awkward age when women choose their futures - and their identities.

Once in Italy, Emma blossoms and is taken up by a a mixture of characters including the local Contessa; Sylvia, her volatile American mentor; Dr Evenlode, an Oxford don she'd hoped never to see again; and Lucio, a seductive and anarchic young Italian, as interested in Emma's body as in her mind. Santorno, however, is not merely a picturesque town set in the golden landscape of the Tuscan countryside. Hidden among the malicious tongues of the provincial gossips and the walls of the mysterious Palazzo Felici lie secrets, long buried, but not forgotten. Emma, ever curious, delves deep and discovers the truth about her new world, her old self - and a gruesome murder.
At eighteen, Emma Kenward runs away from her dull Sloane home to try her luck as a painter in Tuscany. Waspish, idealistic and far too clever for her own good, she is at the awkward age when women choose their futures - and their identities. Once in Italy, Emma blossoms and is taken up by a a mi...

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Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. Before becoming a full-time novelist, she was a journalist for newspapers such as the Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Independent, winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. She continues to review for, among other publications, the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement. Her novels Hearts and Minds and The Golden Rule were both longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, The Lie of the Land was chosen as book of the year by the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman, Evening Standard, Sunday Times and Irish Times, and The Three Graces was chosen as book of the year by a number of publications, including the Spectator and the New Statesman and is being developed into a TV series by Momentum Pictures. She is bringing out a small non-fiction book on Modern Marriage in 2027.

Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. Before becoming a full-time novelist, she was a journalist for newspapers such as the Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Independent, winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. She con...

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