Big Brother

‘Big Brother is brilliant, very different from Kevin but equally compelling. A great tale of a challenging modern problem and the power of sibling devotion’ DAWN O'PORTER

‘Glorious, fearless, almost fanatically hard-working prose. Nothing here feels half-hearted or accidental. There is so much to revel and enjoy…and the result is writing of a beauty and character that is lamentably missing from so much literary fiction’ GUARDIAN

‘Her best novel yet…who would have thought that a novel about a diet could be so moving, and so suspenseful?’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

‘Shriver is wonderful at the things she is always wonderful at’ INDEPENDENT

‘Shriver is a brilliant writer. She has a strong, clear and strangely seductive voice. The characters are strong. The tensions – and hope, and disappointments, and struggles – are well done … so moving it will make you want to gasp or cry’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘From the start I was gripped by its story. 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

‘Piercingly bleak in tone and formally original in execution. It takes the reader by surprise, reminding us, not a moment too soon, that Shriver is a novelist as well as a polemicist. The push-and-pull of a marriage is something that Shriver continues to write exceptionally well. Shriver turns the story on its head and brings a novelist’s panache to the true-life tale’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Big Brother finds the funny – and the pathos – in fat’ USA TODAY