"Shriver said that her favourite novels are those that pack both an intellectual and emotional punch. With Should We Stay or Should We Go, she's added triumphantly to their number." - The Times (UK)
"Her best novel since The Post-Birthday World . . . . A return to form, merging Shriver's better instincts as both novelist and social critic." - Kirkus Reviews
"This sharp-elbowed satire is also a brusquely tender portrait of enduring love." - Washington Post
"A delight to read. . . . Wildly inventive and sometimes hilarious . . . Shriver may be a contrarian-but she has a sense of humor about it. More to the point, she never lets her politics interfere with the sheer zest of her imagination." - Seattle Times
"I think Shriver's novels are wonderful . . . fun, smart and, perhaps because of their author's unconventional political views, unlike anything else you'll read." - Financial Times
"Shriver delivers on a high-concept premise full of alternative narratives based around themes of illness and aging. . . . Readers will be entranced by Shriver's freewheeling meditation on mortality and human agency." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Entertaining and poignant." - Daily Mail
"Very moving . . . Shriver has the magic ability to make the reader invested in the fate-fates, I should say-of her characters." - Daily Telegraph (London)
Lionel Shriver's fiction includes The Mandibles; Property; the National Book Award finalist So Much for That; the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World; and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, adapted for a 2010 film starring Tilda Swinton. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She's a regular columnist for the Spectator in Britain and Harper's Magazine in the US. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York.