Big Brother
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âA gutsy, heartfelt novelâ Sunday Times
â[Shriverâs] best novel yetâ Independent on Sunday
âA surprising sledgehammer of a novelâ The Times
âShriver is brilliant on the novel shock that is hunger... glorious, fearless, almost fanatically hard-working proseâ Guardian
âLionel Shriver's Big Brother has the muscle to overpower its readers. It is a conversation piece of impressive heftâ New York Times
âShriver is wonderful at the things she is always wonderful at. Pace and plot. . . . Psychologyâ Independent
âThe latest compelling, humane and bleakly comic novel from the author of We Need to Talk about Kevinâ Evening Standard
âHer best work... presents characters so fully formed that they inhabit her ideas rather than trumpet themâ New Republic
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesnât recognize him. The once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened?
Soon Edisonâs slovenly habits, appalling diet, and know-it-all monologues are driving Pandora and her fitness-freak husband Fletcher insane. After the brother-in-law has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: itâs him or me.
Rich with Shriverâs distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat: why we overeat and whether extreme diets ever really work. It asks just how much sacrifice weâll make to save single members of our families, and whether itâs ever possible to save loved ones from themselves.
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Lionel Shriverâs novels include the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian and the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York.
