Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies: Longlisted for the Booker Prize
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Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie Mortimer's debut is a symphonic journey through one woman's body: a celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all. Lia and Iris have always been close, but there is a war playing out inside Lia's body, too, and everything is about to change. Deeply buried secrets stir awake. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2022'Original, memorable, shimmering' - Sarah Moss'Extraordinary, kaleidoscopic' - Daisy Johnson'Restlessly inventive . But Lia still has hope . When a sudden diagnosis upends Lia's world, the boundaries between her past and her present begin to collapse. 'Original, memorable, shimmering' - Sarah Moss, author of Ghost WallLia has only one child, Iris; her magical, awkward, endlessly creative daughter who has just entered the battleground of her teenage years. fm/thefeministbookshop delicate and persuasive' - The GuardianSomething gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia's body, learning her life from the inside out.
Paperback | 448 pages130 x 197 x 31 | 322g
Dimensions 153 x 233 x 34mm | 554g
maps of our spectacular bodies
Reviews
Andrea
Can't wait to dive in💗 ! Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC. I cried and I loved it.
M
The characters are real and their relationships, complex. I liked the dual narration and the script dancing up and down the pages, roaming at will, had great impact. The quality is astounding and the book is so floppy!
It’s devastating but beautifully written and clever. It felt desolate and hopeless but portrays a raw truth - at times I had to stop reading to process it, as it felt so overwhelming.
What a tough but beautiful read this is. It deals with love and loss, coming of age, motherhood and illness. All views are my own. It’s bleak but euphoric, profound and heartbreaking: just life as it is.
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