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'Enjoyably abrasive... a compelling read... sardonic and elegant' Evening Standard
'Scabrously funny... few authors can be as entertainingly problematic as Shriver' Guardian
'With laugh-out-loud and sad moments, it's a pinpoint-sharp novel' Woman and Home
'A satire on fitness zealotry with a side serving of culture-war intrigue... diverting' Financial Times
'Darkly funny... 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 time' Good Housekeeping
'Shriver is an exuberant novelist, fertile in ideas, robust in argument and disdainful of economy... 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 again' Allan Massie, The Scotsman
'Mischievous Lionel Shriver takes aim at the narcissistic modern cult of exercise. When Serenata's usually sedentary husband, Remington, takes up exercise and engages an attractive personal trainer called Bambi, the couple's lives are turned upside down.' The Times Best Books for Summer 2020
All her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - but now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. 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 - 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.
'Scabrously funny... few authors can be as entertainingly problematic as Shriver' Guardian
'With laugh-out-loud and sad moments, it's a pinpoint-sharp novel' Woman and Home
'A satire on fitness zealotry with a side serving of culture-war intrigue... diverting' Financial Times
'Darkly funny... 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 time' Good Housekeeping
'Shriver is an exuberant novelist, fertile in ideas, robust in argument and disdainful of economy... 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 again' Allan Massie, The Scotsman
'Mischievous Lionel Shriver takes aim at the narcissistic modern cult of exercise. When Serenata's usually sedentary husband, Remington, takes up exercise and engages an attractive personal trainer called Bambi, the couple's lives are turned upside down.' The Times Best Books for Summer 2020
All her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - but now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. 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 - 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.
'Enjoyably abrasive... a compelling read... sardonic and elegant' Evening Standard
'Scabrously funny... few authors can be as entertainingly problematic as Shriver' Guardian
'With laugh-out-loud and sad moments, it's a pinpoint-sharp novel' Woman and Home
'Darkly funny... 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 time' Good Housekeeping
'Shriver is an exuberant novelist, fertile in ideas, robust in argument and disdainful of economy... 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 again' Allan Massie, The Scotsman
'A satire on fitness zealotry with a side serving of culture-war intrigue... diverting' Financial Times
'Mischievous Lionel Shriver takes aim at the narcissistic modern cult of exercise. When Serenata's usually sedentary husband, Remington, takes up exercise and engages an attractive personal trainer called Bambi, the couple's lives are turned upside down.' The Times Best Books for Summer 2020
'Scabrously funny... few authors can be as entertainingly problematic as Shriver' Guardian
'With laugh-out-loud and sad moments, it's a pinpoint-sharp novel' Woman and Home
'Darkly funny... 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 time' Good Housekeeping
'Shriver is an exuberant novelist, fertile in ideas, robust in argument and disdainful of economy... 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 again' Allan Massie, The Scotsman
'A satire on fitness zealotry with a side serving of culture-war intrigue... diverting' Financial Times
'Mischievous Lionel Shriver takes aim at the narcissistic modern cult of exercise. When Serenata's usually sedentary husband, Remington, takes up exercise and engages an attractive personal trainer called Bambi, the couple's lives are turned upside down.' The Times Best Books for Summer 2020
The Motion of the Body Through Space is notionally about fitness fanaticism, but it's really about physical decline and mortality . . . . What's remarkable is that Shriver, who is at her most lyrical and compelling when contemplating her characters' ambivalence, is so inordinately assured of her positions on real-world issues that many of us find confounding. - Ariel Levy, The New Yorker
"The prospective thrill of a new novel by the iconoclast Lionel Shriver is located here, in anticipating the skewing of pieties." - Joshua Ferris, New York Times Book Review
"The fitness industry is a fat target for satire. And Shriver brings all her ferocious wit to bear to mock its hucksters and disciples." - Ron Charles, Washington Post
"Painfully funny . . . much of it rings true." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Lionel Shriver's The Motion of the Body Through Space is a caustic satire on the modern obsession with exercise in all its lunatic narcissism, with sideswipes at chiding woke culture. But it also contains the most tender passage I've ever read on what it means to grow old in a long marriage. - Janice Turner, The Times (UK)
"Provocative and witty . . . the need for us all to stop moving for a moment and reflect on where we are is Shriver's main subject." - Times Literary Supplement (London)
"If you are looking for a new take on how to live well when the body is failing, Shriver could be just the difficult, limping fellow traveller you need." - The Times (UK)
"A cheeky diatribe on a society determined to go to extremes."
- Booklist
"Scabrously funny. . . . presents a dyspeptic view of people in thrall to exercise. . . . Few authors can be as entertainingly problematic as Shriver."
- The Guardian
"The prospective thrill of a new novel by the iconoclast Lionel Shriver is located here, in anticipating the skewing of pieties." - Joshua Ferris, New York Times Book Review
"The fitness industry is a fat target for satire. And Shriver brings all her ferocious wit to bear to mock its hucksters and disciples." - Ron Charles, Washington Post
"Painfully funny . . . much of it rings true." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Lionel Shriver's The Motion of the Body Through Space is a caustic satire on the modern obsession with exercise in all its lunatic narcissism, with sideswipes at chiding woke culture. But it also contains the most tender passage I've ever read on what it means to grow old in a long marriage. - Janice Turner, The Times (UK)
"Provocative and witty . . . the need for us all to stop moving for a moment and reflect on where we are is Shriver's main subject." - Times Literary Supplement (London)
"If you are looking for a new take on how to live well when the body is failing, Shriver could be just the difficult, limping fellow traveller you need." - The Times (UK)
"A cheeky diatribe on a society determined to go to extremes."
- Booklist
"Scabrously funny. . . . presents a dyspeptic view of people in thrall to exercise. . . . Few authors can be as entertainingly problematic as Shriver."
- The Guardian