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“n Maddie Mortimer’s intimidatingly mature and inventive debut novel, a British artist faces down terminal cancer as her daughter comes of age. It’s a moving, strange, and unexpectedly playful book, inspired by the death of Mortimer’s own mother when she was only fourteen, and is in part narrated by the anthropomorphised voice of cancer itself.” Read more...
Editor’s Choice: Our 2022 Novels of the Year
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
