Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022
WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2022

'Original, memorable, shimmering' - Sarah Moss
'Extraordinary, kaleidoscopic' - Daisy Johnson
'Restlessly inventive . . . delicate and persuasive' - The Guardian

Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia’s body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster tourist. It’s travelling down the banks of her canals. It’s spreading.

When a sudden diagnosis upends Lia’s world, the boundaries between her past and her present begin to collapse. Deeply buried secrets stir awake. As the voice prowling in Lia takes hold of her story, and the landscape around becomes indistinguishable from the one within, Lia and her family are faced with some of the hardest questions of all: how can we move on from the events that have shaped us, when our bodies harbour everything? And what does it mean to die with grace, when you’re simply not ready to let go?

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie Mortimer’s astonishing debut is a symphonic journey through one woman’s body: a wild and lyrical celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9781529069372
BY (AUTHOR) Mortimer, Maddie
PUBLISHER : Pan Macmillan	PUBLICATION DATE : March 31, 2022
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom	IMPRINT : Picador
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : From 18 years
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 233 mm x 153 mm
WEIGHT : 554 g

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Fiction & Related items
Health, Relationships & Personal development