From the Bookshelf of The Toast…

Touch

Claire North

Why we're reading this: Interesting meditations on gender, sexuality, identity, and ethics...through the eyes of a body-jumper
[close] Interesting meditations on gender, sexuality, identity, and ethics...through the eyes of a body-jumper

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Feb 19, 2018 Sarah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

When we talk about SFF as a genre of ideas, we usually mean in terms of the worldbuilding, and the alternative ways of life it opens up. But this takes a story about people who can jump from body to body simply by touch, and the organisation dedicated to hunting them down, and uses it to muse on love, desire, loneliness, ambition, and the true shape of a life well lived.

What I like best about it is its insistence on finding beauty in the unlikeliest of people, in the smallest of details; and its ...more

1 like · Like · see review

Mar 29, 2015 Celia rated it really liked it

Shelves: thrillers-crime, fantasy, spec-fic, 2015-books

An entity that moves from body to body hunts down the person, and then organisation, responsible for the death of one of its previous "hosts" - one sentence summary of the plot which in no way encompasses the beautifully complex thriller/meditation on love and connection that this novel is. ...more

Like · see review