<p><b>Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize<br>Shortlisted for the <i>Sunday Times </i>Young Writer of the Year and the Goldsmiths Prize<br>Longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize<br><br><i>Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies</i> 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.<br><br>‘Original, memorable, shimmering’ - Sarah Moss, author of <i>Ghost Wall</i></b><br><br>Lia 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.<br>&l
