![]() The timing of this 14th novel is similarly apt, arriving when elderly care is high in people’s minds and a bill on assisted dying is passing through Parliament. It won the Orange Prize, was turned into a film with Tilda Swinton and has sold well in excess of a million copies in the UK. Her eighth book, We Need to Talk About Kevin shot her to literary stardom, its depiction of maternal ambivalence contributing to its word-of-mouth success as much as its discussion of school shootings, then just becoming a hot-button issue of school shooting. Also I have very elderly parents, and that has been a sobering experience.” Her mother is 89, blind, wheelchair bound, incontinent and barely able to communicate following a devastating stroke in 2015: her father, a former Presbyterian minister and academic, is 93 “and seriously enfeebled”. “Having crossed the signal threshold of 60, suddenly an age like 80 doesn’t seem that far away, because it isn’t. ![]() “It’s a playful book, I had a wonderful time writing it and its purpose is to entertain.” Yet it comes from a serious place. ![]() New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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