Exquisite Corpse

Marija Pericic

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07 June 2023

Thriller & suspense; Horror & ghost stories; Historical fiction; Australian Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2024 Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel

Romance is dead…He pulled up his stool and looked me over carefully, lightly touching my skin here and there.

‘Because, my sweet girl, you are so very beautiful and that beauty deserves to be recorded for the world to see.’

Beautiful but impoverished Lina Dahlstrom is dying of tuberculosis and it seems that no one can save her. All hope is lost until an eccentric doctor, Carl Dance, becomes enthralled with Lina’s charms and vows to do everything in his power to cure her. But when the illness inevitably claims Lina’s life, Dance’s obsession with her only grows and so begins a mad and criminal scheme to bring her back from beyond the grave and claim her as his own forever.

Set in Stockholm in 1930 and based on true events, Exquisite Corpse is a story about the madness and horror of a romance that knows no bounds.

PRAISE FOR EXQUISITE CORPSE

‘Haunting.’ – Australian Women’s Weekly

‘A brilliant hammer-swing at the notion that a woman is her most beautiful in death, Peričić’s darkly visceral account of entitlement and deluded obsession is jaw-dropping. Exquisite Corpse is ingenious Australian gothic at its macbre best.’ – Sarah Schmidt, author of The Blue Hour and See What I Have Done

‘Historical fiction for a post #metoo world, Exquisite Corpse gets to the bone-tingling core of why consent matters, and always has.’ – Pip Smith, author of Half Wild

By: Marija Pericic
Imprint: Ultimate Editions
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 416g
ISBN: 9781761151330
ISBN 10: 1761151339
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 07 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marija Pericic is a writer based in Melbourne. Her first novel, The Lost Pages, won The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2017 and was shortlisted for the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. She was named as a 2018 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. Exquisite Corpse is her second novel.

Reviews for Exquisite Corpse

'With unflinching boldness, Pericic moves her readers through an abuse of power so extreme, so grotesque, it is elevated to the level of allegory. Historical fiction for a post #metoo world, Exquisite Corpse gets to the bone-tingling core of why consent matters, and always has.' -- Pip Smith, author of Half Wild