Should We Stay or Should We Go

a quick sharp nod, like the start of a pork-pie-eating contest or party game, and Kay who pulled Cyril to her good shoulder and placed a warm, consoling arm around his back. But it wouldn’t do to sink into the cushions of the sofa whilst letting so much of that good cabernet go to waste, so before closing her eyes and kissing the silky hairs on her husband’s forehead she downed the rest of the glass.

About the Author

LIONEL SHRIVER’s fiction includes The Motion of the Body Through Space; The Mandibles; Property; the National Book Award finalist So Much for That; the New York Times bestsellers The Post-Birthday World and We Need to Talk About Kevin, the international bestseller adapted for a 2010 film starring Tilda Swinton. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Harper’s Magazine, and many other publications. She’s a regular columnist for the Spectator in Britain. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York.

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Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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