The Body's Little Secrets: A Novel

by Geoffrey Beattie

As a Cambridge psychology student Matt is used to a cerebral life. Now all that is about to change. Shy and sensitive, he has always closely observed those around him as a means to figuring them out. But when his brother, the golden child of the family, dies in a freak accident, Matt feels afloat. In the hope of keeping some connection he decides to move to the Northern city where his brother lived as a working-class activist. Hoping for contentment in a job at the local university, Matt instead finds himself sucked into the murky world of the city's night life and its shifty inhabitants, as well as the arms of Adele. He needs to use everything he has learned in order to survive, and much more....

320 pages, Paperback

Published June 21, 2018