You know we love a debut, and this week’s featured novel is startlingly good. 

Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia’s body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster tourist. It’s travelling down the banks of her canals. It’s spreading. 

Maps 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 astonishing debut is a symphonic journey through one woman’s body: a wild and lyrical celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all.

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer is published by Picador and available now. Grab a copy from your local indie or from our shop at Bookshop.org – plus signed copies are available at Waterstones!

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