Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2022’Original, memorable, shimmering’ – Sarah Moss’Extraordinary, kaleidoscopic’ – Daisy Johnson’Restlessly inventive . . . delicate and persuasive’ – The GuardianSomething gleeful and malevolent is moving in Liaâ body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster tourist. Itâ travelling down the banks of her canals. Itâ spreading.When a sudden diagnosis upends Liaâ 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 Mortimerâ astonishing debut is a symphonic journey through one womanâ body: a wild and lyrical celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all.

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