Body of Stars: Searing and thought-provoking - the most addictive novel you'll read all year

Body of Stars is a thrilling and flawlessly crafted debut about the potential women have to hold magic, make magic, and change the course of history with the underestimated weapons of intelligence and love. It is a bold and dazzling exploration of fate and female agency in a world where women own the future but not their own bodies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 16 March 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division

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Compelling, menacing, and ultimately uplifting, I fell headlong into the world of Body of Stars. SARAH WARD's debut novel is a rapturously written and wildly original exploration of girlhood dreams and nightmares. EMILYY SCHULTZ praises it as a gift, stating that it offers a bold and dazzling exploration of fate and female agency in a world where women own the future but not their own bodies.

Like every woman, Celeste Morton holds a map of the future in her skin, with every mole and freckle a clue to unlocking what will come to pass. With puberty comes the changeling period, when her final marks will appear and her future is decided. The possibilities are tantalizing enough for Celeste's excitement to outweigh her fear. Changelings are sought-after commodities, and abduction is rife as men seek to possess these futures for themselves.

Celeste's marks have always been closely entwined with her brother, Miles. Her skin holds a future only he, as a gifted interpreter, can read, and he has always considered his sister his practice ground. But when Celeste's marks change, she learns a devastating secret about her brother's future that she must keep to herself—and Miles is keeping a secret of his own. When the lies of brother and sister collide, Celeste determines to create a future that is truly her own.

Body of Stars is an urgent read about what happens when women are objectified and violently stripped of choice—and what happens when they fight back. Part allegory, part warning, and part celebration of the female body, this is a thrilling and f.

Weight: 590g
Dimension: 166 x 241 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529349191