The 2023 Booker Prize longlist.The multifaceted, poetic, largely experimental text is complemented by a verbiage, poems, facts about the human body and articles where words dance, break off, add up to pictures and scatter like fireworks.The novel "Maps of our delightful bodies" is dedicated to the topic of cancer.This is literally a journey through the life of the heroine Leah, told in part by the voice of her illness. We will learn about Leah's childhood, difficult relationships with her parents, first love, creative path, the birth of her daughter, the first meeting with the disease and the final reconciliation with her. Maddy Mortimer's unique style and special sense of humor make this story touching and life-affirming at the same time.A heartbreaking, but at the same time darkly funny novel. Mortimer penetrated the body and spirit of literature, taking an experience familiar to many of us and making it completely unique. This book is somewhere between the everyday and the epic, the comic and the melancholic.