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Maps of our spectacular bodies, Maddie Mortimer

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Maps of our spectacular bodies, Maddie Mortimer

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Maps of our spectacular bodies

Oclc number

1273467291

Responsibility statement

Maddie Mortimer

Summary

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

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