{"product_id":"9781529069389","title":"Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies : Longlisted for the Booker Prize","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Mortimer, Maddie \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eEngland\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 30 March 2023 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 448 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 197 x 31 | 322g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sunday Times Book of the Year'Restlessly inventive . . . delicate and persuasive' - The Guardian'Extraordinary, kaleidoscopic' - Daisy Johnson, author of Everything, Under\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40578867527815,"sku":"9781529069389","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/products\/9781529069389.jpg?v=1710422507","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781529069389","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}