Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver

One couple, twelve different endings to their story

Very good condition – minor shelf wear, otherwise clean.

Kay and Cyril Wilkinson, a nurse and a doctor in their early fifties, watch Kay's father decline into dementia and decide they'd rather leave life on their own terms than endure the same fate: they agree to end things together once Kay turns eighty. From there, Lionel Shriver spins out twelve different parallel versions of what might actually happen to the couple, from care homes and cryogenics to a cure for ageing itself, weaving in Brexit, the pandemic, and the everyday texture of a long marriage along the way. Sharp, funny and unsentimental, it's a thought-provoking take on ageing, mortality and how much can still change in a life, from the author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.