MAPS OF OUR SPECTACULAR BODIES : LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
MAPS OF OUR SPECTACULAR BODIES : LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
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 Mortimers debut is a symphonic journey through one womans 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 Lias 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 familys deepest fears. But Lia still has hope . . . for more time, for more love, for more Iris. The Sunday Times Book of the YearRestlessly inventive . . . delicate and persuasive - The GuardianExtraordinary, kaleidoscopic - Daisy Johnson, author of Everything, Under