![]() But it was at least palatable and that's saying something with audiobooks. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs a very funny book. The reader's sing-song intonation, better suited to Austen than the more Muriel Spark-like qualities of Shriver's writing, sometimes jarred and often gave the impression she didn't really understand the more mordant undertones of what she was saying. A best fiction book of 2021 for The Times Hilarious Fiery phrases spit and crackle. On the whole, though, it kept me entertained to the end. Some of it inevitably works better than other bits and the mirroring of images and tropes throughout the different versions sometimes felt contrived. Should We Stay or Should We Go, by Lionel Shriver (HarperCollins, 32.99) Reviewed by Wendy Smith. What if they 'cured' old age? What if Britain was swamped in illegals? What if you could be cryogenically frozen - and so on. Lionel Shrivers novels include the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. I really enjoyed this but then I do fit the demographic (being someone 'Death is starting to take an interest in' to steal an image from Amis) Shriver uses a punchy concept - like the Billy Idol song title - to pull together the strands of a number of modern anxieties and preoccupations Brexit, the pandemic, immigration, to name a few and then spin them off as a set of whimsical hypotheses. ![]()
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