The Post-Birthday World is written with all the subtlety, perceptiveness and drama that made We Need to Talk About Kevin an international bestseller. A layered and unflinching portrait of infidelitywith a narrative appropriately split in two. The answer is that there is no perfect answer: one of the things that draws us to our mates is what is wrong with them. Both men in Irina's dual future are worthy of her affection but deeply flawed. The contrasts between the two men have ramifications for Irina's relationships with friends and family, for her career as an illustrator, and more importantly, for the texture of her daily life. A tour de force. But that barely scrapes the surface in describing Shrivers imaginative feat.Its mad genius.

Lawrence is emotionally withdrawn to the point of repression Ramsey is fiery and passionate, but volatile. 'The Post-Birthday World is a brilliant what if novel. Where Lawrence is supportive and devoted Ramsey is the ex-husband of a sometime friend, a once-a-year acquaintance to whom Irina has never paid a great deal of attention. Lawrence is Irina's partner of nearly ten years. The Post-Birthday World is about alternate trajectories in life and love. Using a parallel universe structure, we follow Irina's life as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men. This dazzling novel from the Orange Prizewinning author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin takes a psychological and deeply human. Whether Irina McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hard-living snooker player. The new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin

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