a quick sharp nod, like the start of a pork-pie-eating contest or party game, and Kay who pulled Cyril to her good shoulder and placed a warm, consoling arm around his back. But it wouldn’t do to sink into the cushions of the sofa whilst letting so much of that good cabernet go to waste, so before closing her eyes and kissing the silky hairs on her husband’s forehead she downed the rest of the glass.
About the Author LIONEL SHRIVER’s fiction includes The Motion of the Body Through Space; The Mandibles; Property; the National Book Award finalist So Much for That; the New York Times bestsellers The Post-Birthday World and We Need to Talk About Kevin, the international bestseller adapted for a 2010 film starring Tilda Swinton. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Harper’s Magazine, and many other publications. She’s a regular columnist for the Spectator in Britain. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York. Discover great authors, exclusive offers, and more at hc.com. Also by Lionel Shriver The Motion of the Body Through Space Property The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 Big Brother The New Republic So Much for That The Post-Birthday World We Need to Talk About Kevin Double Fault A Perfectly Good Family Game Control Ordinary Decent Criminals Checker and the Derailleurs The Female of the Species Copyright This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO. Copyright © 2021 by Lionel Shriver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. Cover design by gray318 Cover photograph by Mark Read FIRST EDITION Digital Edition JUNE 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-309426-0 Version 04202021 Print ISBN: 978-0-06-309424-6 About the Publisher Australia HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty. Ltd. Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia www.harpercollins.com.au Canada HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower 22 Adelaide Street West, 41st Floor Toronto, Ontario, M5H 4E3 www.harpercollins.ca India HarperCollins India A 75, Sector 57 Noida Uttar Pradesh 201 301 www.harpercollins.co.in New Zealand HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand Unit D1, 63 Apollo Drive Rosedale 0632 Auckland, New Zealand www.harpercollins.co.nz United Kingdom HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF, UK www.harpercollins.co.uk United States HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 195 Broadway New York, NY 10007 www.harpercollins.com
