In anticipation of the English releases of Hanna Johansson’s critically acclaimed second novel Body Double, in the UK and Australia by Scribe Publications on March 12 and in North America by Catapult on April 7, several publications have shown their excitement about the book.
Body Double made it on Literary Hub’s list of the most anticipated books of the year.
Okay Persona… okay Ingmar Bergman… okay Scandinavian literature about lesbians who start turning into each other…. Body Double is a novel with two narratives: one about a woman whose girlfriend begins stealing her life, and another about a transcriptionist who becomes convinced she’s disappearing. In the grand tradition of “All About Eve” and “Mulholland Drive” and “3 Women”, Johansson’s novel is a strange, twisty story about obsession and identity and how easy it can be to lose yourself completely.
–MC
And it’s on Page Breaks radar of new releases in spring 2026.
Last but not least, Vulture names the novel as one of the 23 books they can’t wait to read this year.
Johansson’s debut novel, Antiquity, was a slow burn, sensual and troubling. Her follow-up — a thriller about two young women who spark up a suffocating romance after one accidentally takes the other’s coat in a café — sounds a little like Single White Female, a little like Vertigo, and exactly like the queer doppelgänger story I’ve been dying to read.
–J.V.
