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Coming-of-age at life's twilight, darkly humorous.

"Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies" is an evocative read that meshes the rawness of confronting mortality with the enchantment of a mother-daughter bond. If you're drawn to stories that weave the fearsome with the tender, Maddie Mortimer's lyrical journey across the landscapes of the human body and soul might just redefine how you perceive life's fleeting moments. It's for the poetic at heart, who appreciate the fragile beauty in life's impermanence.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2022)
  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Longlist (2023)
  • Desmond Elliott Prize (2022)
  • Goldsmiths Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2022)
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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

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ISBN: 9781529069389
Authors: Maddie Mortimer
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2023-03-22
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.97
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This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman’s life—told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease. Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia’s past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform. Deftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia’s youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia’s body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day. Pivoting between the domestic and the epic, the comic and the heart-breaking, this astonishing novel unearths the darkness and levity of one woman’s life to symphonic effect.
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Coming-of-age at life's twilight, darkly humorous.

"Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies" is an evocative read that meshes the rawness of confronting mortality with the enchantment of a mother-daughter bond. If you're drawn to stories that weave the fearsome with the tender, Maddie Mortimer's lyrical journey across the landscapes of the human body and soul might just redefine how you perceive life's fleeting moments. It's for the poetic at heart, who appreciate the fragile beauty in life's impermanence.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2022)
  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Longlist (2023)
  • Desmond Elliott Prize (2022)
  • Goldsmiths Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.