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Shriver asks penetrating questions about what the metrics of a well-lived life could or should be, and what responsibility, if any, one has to others and to oneself if those metrics begin to show inescapable diminishment.

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, phone the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and talk to somebody about it. Call Search Query Show Search. Ways to Give. Show Search Search Query. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. She is also staring down the barrel of a knee replacement. She had to stop running three years ago. Now she makes do with high knees interval training on the carpet. The Motion of the Body Through Space , which is out on 7 May, is about a marriage pushed to the limits when an ageing husband, Remington Alabaster, 64, suddenly dons lycra and starts running in orange trainers, before he sets his sights on a triathlon.

Will the marriage survive? Sound familiar? I am examining myself, as well as the rest of the world. The last thing I want to be remembered for is how many star jumps I did. Shriver has had her fair share of run-ins with controversy. There were a couple of accusations of racism and cultural appropriation for its depiction of Latino and African-American characters.

These days, to even include them as characters at all is considered by some as cultural appropriation. Serenata is getting stick online for her accents in audiobooks that she does for a living. But Serenata — much like Shriver herself — is flabbergasted. She picks playfully at the scab of Brexit.

Cyril and Kay voice her belief that the economic damage caused by lockdown will be worse than the pandemic. Conversely, JK Rowling was not cancelled for her views on trans rights because she was simply too famous. Her own persona seems as carefully crafted as her fiction.

In she married jazz drummer Jeff Williams. She eats one meal a day, usually at midnight, goes to bed at 5am and rarely turns on the heating in her Bermondsey home even though she suffers from chronic sensitivity to cold.

Her life of writerly solitude and enforced privation sounds like ideal preparation for lockdown. Most of the time we even managed to maintain a conversation, which is the hardest part, because nothing was happening. The lack of stories has put me in a state of desperation. ES Money. The Escapist.