'A gutsy, heartfelt novel' Sunday Times '[Shriver's] best novel
yet' Independent on Sunday 'A surprising sledgehammer of a novel'
The Times 'Shriver is brilliant on the novel shock that is
hunger... glorious, fearless, almost fanatically hard-working
prose' Guardian 'Lionel Shriver's Big Brother has the muscle to
overpower its readers. It is a conversation piece of impressive
heft' New York Times 'Shriver is wonderful at the things she is
always wonderful at. Pace and plot. . . . Psychology' Independent
'The latest compelling, humane and bleakly comic novel from the
author of We Need to Talk about Kevin' Evening Standard 'Her best
work... presents characters so fully formed that they inhabit her
ideas rather than trumpet them' New Republic When 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 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: it's him or me. Rich with Shriver's
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 we'll make to save single members of our
families, and whether it's ever possible to save loved ones from
themselves.
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