![]() ![]() Elsewhere, they decide to play out their dotage in a spendy retirement home, or their children discover the plan and have the couple banished to a dismal institution. Kay has second thoughts and is struck dead by a delivery van anyhow or Cyril does and meets a similarly dim fate. In successive chapters, Shriver imagines a dozen ways this plan plays out, or doesn’t. So they agree that on Kay’s 80th birthday, in 2020, they’ll take fatal doses of Seconal. ![]() In 1991, Kay, an interior designer, and Cyril, a physician with Britain's National Health Service, are dispirited by the death of Kay’s father from dementia. ![]() Is it a good idea to kill yourself before you become elderly and burdensome? Shriver considers the possibilities.Īfter more than a decade of often sour, scolding fiction, Shriver has written her best novel since The Post-Birthday World (2007), in no small part because it revisits that book’s alternate-timeline conceit. ![]()
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