Under attack from within, Lia tries to keep the landscapes of her past, her present and her body separate. But time and bodies are porous and unpredictable.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;Something gleeful and malign is moving in Lia’s body. It shape-shifts down the banks of her canals and leaks through her tissue, nooks and nodes. It taps her trachea like the bones of a xylophone. It’s spreading. Lia’s story is told, in part, by the very thing that’s killing her; a malevolent voice that wanders her systems, learning her from the inside out. The novel moves between her past and her present as we come to understand the people that have shaped her life.&nbsp; In turn, each of these takes up their place in the battle raging within Lia’s body, at the centre of which dances the murderous narrator and a boy nicknamed ‘Red’ - the toxic chemo that is Lia’s last hope."... playful and surreal prose ... Using word placement, font, and shape to create images on the page, Mortimer deepens the reader’s engagement with the story and characters ... Through breathtaking attention to detail, Mortimer crafts a stunning novel that touches on the expanses one life can contain."&nbsp; &nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;Laura Chanoux, Booklist Maddie Mortimer&nbsp;was born in London in 1996 to a family of writers - both her mother and maternal grandfather were also authors - and 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&nbsp;Faber Academy Writing a Novel course.&nbsp;Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is her first novel.

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