I believe you should have the right to end your life at a time of your choosing “That’s just sheer freakish luck,” she smiles. 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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