Bøger af Maddie Mortimer

Kort over kroppens landskab er en både brutal og håbefuld fortælling om det, vi gør med livet, når vores fremtid tages fra os. Om det at være syg og skulle forlade livet, og det at være pårørende og skulle leve videre.Lia bærer sin fortid i sin krop. Dens erfaringer og relationer ligger forstenet i hende, afskåret fra det liv, hun lever. Men da noget ondsindet indtager hendes krop, begynder fortiden at sive ud i nutiden.Sammen med sin mand, Harry, og datter, Iris, har Lia skabt den harmoniske familie, hun altid har ønsket sig. Men da hun stilles en terminal kræftdiagnose, bliver familien tvunget til at tage stilling til, hvad de vil gøre med deres sidste tid sammen. Med Lias døende krop som centrum udfoldes en kalejdoskopisk fortælling om en kvindes levede liv og dets ende.

Named a Best Book of 2022 by Time, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal Longlisted for the Booker Prize · Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize · Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize · Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize · Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Prize This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman’s life—told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease.Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia’s past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform. Deftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia’s youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia’s body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day. 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.

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is about a family coming to terms with the unthinkable: the death of a mother. Playful and funny, profound and heart-breaking, this is a daring debut about motherhood, anatomy, language and the darkness within us all.