Book description
Following the success of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' and 'The
Post-Birthday World', 'A Perfectly Good Family' is coming back into
print after being unavailable for years.
Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves
back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina,
willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left
home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into 'his' house
as well, it's war.
Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must
team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying
with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who
covets his legacy to destroy it. 'A Perfectly Good Family' is a stunning
examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from
our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or
not. Praise for The Post-Birthday World:
'Those of us who rave about the dash and dare of Lionel Shriver's
fiction can rejoice that The Post-Birthday World, a 'Sliding
Doors'-style joint tale of alternative loves and lives, will garner the
attention she always deserves'
Independent
'Shriver gives us another passionate novel…Like Sliding Doors, the tale
splits into two, following the dramatic turns of each choice. Brilliant'
Cosmopolitan
'It's another domestic drama with a compelling twist…the power struggle
between the sexes is spot-on. Shriver chalks her narrative cue with
relish and, once the story gets underway, it's hard to take your eyes
off the green baize'
Tatler
''The Post-Birthday World' is Lionel Shriver's forthcoming work about
the dilemmas of love - a must if you were gripped by 'We Need To Talk
About Kevin''
Harper's Bazaar Lionel Shriver's novels include the New York Times
bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We
Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize and has now
sold over a million copies worldwide. Earlier books include Double
Fault, A Perfectly Good Family, and Checker and the Derailleurs. Her
novels have been translated into twenty-five different languages. Her
journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London.
