Please Don't Touch the Body
Stories
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verve Books
Publishing:26th Nov '26
£11.99
This title is due to be published on 26th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
By turns tender and irreverent, the eleven genre-bending stories in Please Don't Touch the Body revel in the devastation - and power - of being alive today.
Is there solace to be found in a secret life as a sex columnist? Is a hypochondriac new graduate really dying of stomach cancer - and would she find that preferable to navigating the freedoms and responsibilities of adult life? What would happen if Ronald Reagan were reincarnated as the much-loved puppy of a young queer woman?
Doyle envisions answers to all of this and more in Please Don't Touch the Body. Preoccupied by the bizarre realities of modern life, this rich collage of stories reveals an original mind and a writer to watch.
Doyle is a knockout writer * Debutiful (Most Anticipated Debuts 2026) *
A magnificent debut. In these carefully crafted stories, lonely people come face to face with the strange or the unsettling, leading to messy, horny, funny and ultimately profound complications. Doyle is a rising star -- Laila Lalami, Pulitzer-Prize finalist and author of The Dream Hotel
Open-heartedly honest, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully fresh -- Jessie Ren Marshall, author of Women! In! Peril!
What strange, beautiful and deftly written stories. Here are women suffocating in their passivity, teetering between the lives that had been forced upon them and the lives they've yet to choose. Doyle is a writer to watch -- Rita Chang-Eppig, author of Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
A thoughtful collection that studies the secret, hungry spaces within our loud human lives -- Ramona Ausubel, author of The Last Animal
ISBN: 9780857307187
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
192 pages