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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

By: Maddie Mortimer
Narrated by: Lydia Wilson, Tamsin Greig
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Publisher's summary

Longlisted for the Booker Prize

Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize

Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize

Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize

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.

©2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited (P)2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
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Critic reviews

"Original, memorable, shimmering." (Sarah Moss)

"Extraordinary, kaleidoscopic." (Daisy Johnson)

"Restlessly inventive...delicate and persuasive." (The Guardian)

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