SO MUCH FOR THAT PB B FORMAT – LIONEL SHRIVER

What do you pack for the rest of your life? The explosive new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin Shepherd Knacker has been saving all his working life for a one way ticket away from the daily grind. When he sells his handyman business for $1million, The Afterlife seems tantalisingly within reach. Yet his wife has concocted one reason after another why now isn t the time to go. Determined to take the plunge, Shep announces that he is leaving for an island off the coast of Tanzania: with or without her. However, Glynis has an announcement of her own – she needs his health insurance. Illustrating how a marriage is both stressed and strengthened by medical crisis, So Much for That puts the uncomfortable fiscal question: how much is one life worth? Enlivened by Shriver s signature acerbity and political outrage, it s surely the funniest and most entertaining novel about illness and death one s ever likely to read.