Motion Of The Body Through Space

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From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin'Enjoyably abrasive... a compelling read... sardonic and elegant' Evening Standard'Scabrously funny... few authors can be as entertainingly problematic as Shriver' Guardian
aEURO~With laugh-out-loud and sad moments, itaEURO (TM)s a pinpoint-sharp novelaEURO (TM) Woman and Home

aEURO~A satire on fitness zealotry with a side serving of culture-war intrigueaEURO| divertingaEURO (TM) Financial Times

aEURO~Darkly funnyaEURO| Shriver is so good at making wry observations about human behaviour and this is particularly witty on the dynamics between couples who have been together a long timeaEURO (TM) Good Housekeeping

aEURO~Shriver is an exuberant novelist, fertile in ideas, robust in argument and disdainful of economyaEURO| She writes bold and fearless comedy and delights in slaughtering the sacred cows of the stupid times we live in. Few novelists now raise a laugh. Shriver does so time and againaEURO (TM) Allan Massie, The Scotsman

aEURO~Mischievous Lionel Shriver takes aim at the narcissistic modern cult of exercise. When SerenataaEURO (TM)s usually sedentary husband, Remington, takes up exercise and engages an attractive personal trainer called Bambi, the coupleaEURO (TM)s lives are turned upside down.aEURO (TM) The Times Best Books for Summer 2020

All her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled aEURO" but now that sheaEURO (TM)s hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees.a And her previously sedentary husband Remington chooses this precise moment to discover exercise.

As he joins the cult of fitness, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. When he announces his intention to compete in a legendarily gruelling triathlon, Serenata is sure he's going to end up injured or dead aEURO" but the stubbornness of an ageing man in Lycra is not to be underestimated.

The story of an obsession, of a marriage, of a betrayal: The Motion Of The Body Through Space is Lionel Shriver at her hilarious, sharp-eyed, audacious best.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780007560813
Published: April 2021

Number of pages: 368
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 28 mm

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers