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Today I might trace the rungs of her larynx or tap at her trachea like the bones of a xylophone or cook up or undo some great horrors of my own because here is the thing about bodies: they are impossibly easy to prowl, without anyone suspecting a thing. Until, of course, they do. And then, of course, they aren’t. When Lia finds out that her cancer is back, she tries to keep the landscapes of her past, her present and her body separate. But bodies are porous, unpredictable places. Lia’s story is told, in part, by the very thing that is killing her; a gleeful and malevolent voice that shape-shifts through her systems, learning her life from the inside-out. We come to understand the people that have shaped her: a daughter, navigating the horrors of the playground; a husband, struggling to maintain a sense of self as everything falls apart; a regretful mother making up for lost time; and a troubled former lover who belongs to Lia's past, but won't stay there. In turn they each take up their place in the changing landscape of Lia’s body, at the centre of which dances our restless narrator and a boy nicknamed ‘Red’; the chemotherapy that is Lia’s last hope. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming-of-age at the end o
f a life – a heartbreaking tale of desire, love and forgiveness, a wild and fierce journey through one woman’s body.
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About the Author
Maddie Mortimer was born in London in 1996. She received her BA in English Literature from the University of Bristol. Her writing has featured in The Times and her short films have screened at festivals around the world. She is co-writing a TV series currently in development with Various Artists Ltd. In 2019 she completed the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is her first novel.
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- Publisher : Picador (31 March 2022); 175 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010 USA
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1529069378
- ISBN-13 : 978-1529069372
- Item Weight : 550 g
- Dimensions : 15.3 x 3.4 x 23.3 cm
- Country of Origin : United Kingdom
- Importer : Pan Macmillan Publishing, 707, 7th Floor, Kailash Building 26, K.G. Marg, New Delhi, Delhi 110001, 011-2332 0837
- Packer : AAJ Enterprises; Khasra No. 91/7, Village Akbarpur Barota, Sector - 42, Distt. Sonipat, Haryana- 131101
- Generic Name : Book
- Best Sellers Rank: #11,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #928 in Contemporary Fiction (Books)
- #1,251 in Personal Transformation
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