Maps of Our Spectacular BodiesMaddie MortimerLabel: PicadorDescription: Winner of the Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted: Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year – Goldsmiths Prize – Betty Trask PrizeLonglisted: Booker Prize – Dylan Thomas PrizeMaps 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 debut is a symphonic journey through one woman’s body: a celebration of desire forgiveness and the darkness within us all.‘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. 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.As she confronts what might be the end memories of her own childhood and a passionate love affair come rushing into her present unearthing buried secrets and her family’s deepest fears. But Lia still has hope . . . for more time for more love for more Iris.The Sunday Times Book of the Year'Restlessly inventive . . . delicate and persuasive' – The Guardian‘Extraordinary kaleidoscopic’ – Daisy Johnson author of Everything Under
