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A NEW EDITION WITH EXTRA MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR

‘So moving it will make you want to gasp or cry’ Sunday Times

‘Glorious, fearless… possibly her very best’ Observer

‘Pandora is a masterly creation’ New York Times

Pandora has looked up to her older brother Edison since they were children. Now she revels in the anonymity of her suburban Iowa life, while her brother basks in the limelight as a New York jazz musician. But when Edison arrives in Iowa, suddenly in need of a place to stay, Pandora literally doesn’t recognize him. The once slim, hip pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened?

With Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother asks: just how much should you sacrifice for someone who refuses to be saved?

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‘A surprising sledgehammer of a novel’ The Times

‘Shriver is brilliant on the novel shock that is hunger… glorious, fearless, almost fanatically hard-working prose’ Guardian

‘Lionel Shriver’s Big Brother has the muscle to overpower its readers. It is a conversation piece of impressive heft’ New York Times

‘Shriver is wonderful at the things she is always wonderful at. Pace and plot… . Psychology’ Independent

‘The latest compelling, humane and bleakly comic novel from the author of We Need to Talk about Kevin’ Evening Standard

‘Her best work… presents characters so fully formed that they inhabit her ideas rather than trumpet them’ New Republic

Publisher Review

‘Big Brother is brilliant, very different from Kevin but equally compelling. A great tale of a challenging modern problem and the power of sibling devotion’ DAWN O’PORTER

‘Glorious, fearless, almost fanatically hard-working prose. Nothing here feels half-hearted or accidental. There is so much to revel and enjoy…and the result is writing of a beauty and character that is lamentably missing from so much literary fiction’ GUARDIAN

‘Her best novel yet…who would have thought that a novel about a diet could be so moving, and so suspenseful?’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

‘Shriver is wonderful at the things she is always wonderful at’ INDEPENDENT

‘Shriver is a brilliant writer. She has a strong, clear and strangely seductive voice. The characters are strong. The tensions – and hope, and disappointments, and struggles – are well done … so moving it will make you want to gasp or cry’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘From the start I was gripped by its story. Once again, Shriver has provided much food for thought’ DAILY MAIL

‘Lionel Shriver’s Big Brother has the muscle to overpower its readers. It is a conversation piece of impressive heft’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Piercingly bleak in tone and formally original in execution. It takes the reader by surprise, reminding us, not a moment too soon, that Shriver is a novelist as well as a polemicist. The push-and-pull of a marriage is something that Shriver continues to write exceptionally well. Shriver turns the story on its head and brings a novelist’s panache to the true-life tale’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Big Brother finds the funny – and the pathos – in fat’ USA TODAY