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Book SynopsisA gutsy, heartfelt novel' Sunday Times[Shriver's] best novel yet' Independent on SundayA surprising sledgehammer of a novel' The TimesShriver is brilliant on the novel shock that is hunger glorious, fearless, almost fanatically hard-working prose' GuardianLionel Shriver''s Big Brother has the muscle to overpower its readers. It is a conversation piece of impressive heft' New York TimesShriver is wonderful at the things she is always wonderful at. Pace and plot. . . . Psychology' IndependentThe latest compelling, humane and bleakly comic novel from the author of We Need to Talk about Kevin' Evening StandardHer best work presents characters so fully formed that they inhabit her ideas rather than trumpet them' New RepublicWhen Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. The once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened?Soon Edison's slovenly habits, appalling diet, and know-it-all monologues
Trade Review‘Glorious, fearless … possibly her very best’ OBSERVER
‘Her best novel yet’ INDEPENDENT
‘A brilliant writer. She has a strong, clear and strangely seductive voice. The characters are strong . . . so moving it will make you want to gasp or cry’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Piercingly bleak in tone and formally original in execution . . . reminding us, not a moment too soon, that Shriver is a novelist as well as a polemicist’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘From the start I was gripped. Once again, Shriver has provided much food for thought’ DAILY MAIL
‘Lionel Shriver’s Big Brother has the muscle to overpower its readers. It is a conversation piece of impressive heft’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘Big Brother finds the funny – and the pathos – in fat’
USA TODAY
‘Brilliantly done’ EVENING STANDARD
‘Pandora is a masterly creation’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
