BODY DOUBLE

BODY DOUBLE – BODY DOUBLE

By Hanna Johansson

There, a young woman is working as a transcriber for a ghostwriter. Her rather lonely life is full of routines. She goes to the ghostwriter’s office, picks up cassette tapes with recorded material, drinks espresso and eats croissants on the way home, then sits down to write down what the unknown people say on the tapes. The ghostwriter then turns these stories into novels. One day she hears an anomaly: someone has recorded a message that could only be meant for her.

IN THE SAME town, Naomi and Laura meet by chance when they take each other’s coat in the café of the big department store. It’s a strange and intense encounter and soon Laura moves in with Naomi. As time goes by, Laura starts to look more and more like Naomi, gradually taking over Naomi’s life.

AT THE SAME time, the young woman who works for the ghostwriter realises that she is disappearing.

HANNA JOHANSSON’S SECOND novel Body Double is a surreal thriller about lies and truth, real and fake, what you hide and what you show.