This Immaculate Body : 'Darkly funny' (Oyinkan Braithwaite)

Author: Straaten, Emma van

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 5 February 2026 by Little, Brown Book Group (Fleet) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 256 pages
197 x 128 x 23 | 222g

'Stirring to its very core, This Immaculate Body enthrals beyond measure' LUCY ROSE, author of THE LAMB'Momentous, kaleidoscopic . . . A wild ride from start to finish' HANAKO FOOTMAN, author of MONGREL'Stunningly accomplished' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS, author of FUNDAMENTALLY'Shocking . . . darkly funny' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER'It's a ride you don't want to end' COSMOPOLITANCan you climb inside a stranger's life and make him love you?Alice knows every detail of Tom's life. She has taken a side hustle as a cleaner just to feel close to him, to wipe every smudge from his coffee cups, smooth every crease of his bed, read every email in his inbox. She is in love. And Tom will love her too - once he has met her.

While Alice masterminds the bone-shattering romance she knows they will have, she tries to morph into the woman Tom will want. And when this happens, no one - not her mother, not her sister, not her sneering co-workers - will be able to look down on her anymore.

'Obsessive, delusional, disastrous - but so intricately woven with heart, warmth and empathy' ALICE SLATER, author of DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER'Original, darkly funny and addictive with twists that will leave you reeling' GLAMOUR'An evocative story that deserves immediate cult status' DAZED'If this doesn't make you cancel your cleaner, nothing will' THE TIMES[published in the US under the title Creep]