num_pages: 190
description: Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
language: English
title: Written on the Body
titlecomplete: Written on the Body
genres: Fiction, Queer, LGBT, Lesbian, Romance, Literature, Feminism, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 28598
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category: Lesbian Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Fiction
publisher: Vintage Contemporaries