The Body Builders
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Albertine Clarke
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'If Philip K. Dick had written The Bell Jar, it may have resembled The Body Builders - at once smooth as android skin and sharp as shards of broken mirror. A stunning and haunting debut' CAMILLE BORDAS
'By turns tender and unsettling, The Body Builders is a spare yet profound enquiry into the bonds of family and the limits of the self, and what it means to be connected to other people. Full of stylish and unexpected touches - a debut that marks an important new talent' TASH AW
'An exciting and remarkably controlled debut using a brilliant sci-fi conceit to tell a story about estrangement, selfhood, and love' CATHERINE LACEY
Ada lives a solitary life in London. She spends her days swimming in her apartment building's basement pool, occasionally visiting her cousin, meeting people for drinks, ignoring invitations. Ada's parents are recently divorced. Her father is always training at the gym, warm with human proximity. Her mother spends her days alone.
When she meets a man named Atticus by the pool, Ada immediately senses an intimate connection between them, as if they share a life in a way she can't explain. Little by little, Ada's estrangement from all that is familiar to her widens, as though she is seeing her reflection through a mirror, pieces of it falling away. She worries she may be losing her mind.
Eventually, Ada's attachment to her world and her body itself fails completely. She is jolted into a new, artificial environment - The Facility - apparently created and designed just for her.
When a person's life, in the odd space between mind and body, is inherently one of isolation, are our connections with those around us merely projections of ourselves? And if not, where do they come from?
With precision, subtlety, and confidence Albertine Clarke transforms the speculative into an entirely singular experience of deep interiority. The Body Builders lands like a blow, widening a crack that allows us to perceive the world differently than we ever imagined.©2026 Albertine Clarke (P)2026 Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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I was enraptured by this book. The Body Builders exhibits Albertine Clarke's remarkable gifts - the boldness and precision of her imagination, the breadth of her ethical and intellectual concerns. She is a fearless writer, and I felt a shiver of admiration as I read every page
An exciting and remarkably controlled debut using a brilliant sci-fi conceit to tell a story about estrangement, selfhood, and love
If Philip K. Dick had written The Bell Jar, it may have resembled The Body Builders - at once smooth as android skin and sharp as shards of broken mirror. A stunning and haunting debut
By turns tender and unsettling, The Body Builders is a spare yet profound enquiry into the bonds of family and the limits of the self, and what it means to be connected to other people. Full of stylish and unexpected touches - a debut that marks an important new talent
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