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  • Location: Scotland, Cambridge, Oxford

These Mortal Bodies

These Mortal Bodies

Why a Booktrail?

2025: She wasn’t born into their world. But she’ll do anything to belong.

  • ISBN: 978-1398535107
  • Genre: Crime, Fiction

What you need to know before your trail

Leaving behind her childhood in coastal Scotland, Ivy Graveson arrives at an all-girls college at a prestigious university and throws herself into the deep end of life on campus.

Though her fellow students all seem to come from money and to have known each other their whole lives, outsider Ivy is determined to belong. She embraces the world of secret societies, and as she discovers the legacy of her college, the parallels between its past and her present become striking. Because however hard she tries to ignore it, Ivy has always felt drawn to – and terrified of – the bodies of water that surround her.

In just one life-changing year in these hallowed halls, Ivy will have to decide how much sisterhood means to her and how far she’ll go to become the person she was destined to be.

Travel Guide

Scotland to Oxford/ Cambridge

The locations in this novel are never mentioned but Scotland is only a vague location as Ivy is from there and there is a bit of Scottish lingo dotted throughout the story.

The university is clearly Oxbridge or Cambridge inspired but it fits neither completely and of course, the university is fictional and has to be!

 

BookTrail Boarding Pass: These Mortal Bodies

Destination/location: Scotland, Oxford, Cambridge  Author/guide:   Elspeth Wilson  Departure Time: 2025

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