A Better LifeA superb satirical novelist WASHINGTON POST In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be. An incendiary provocateur EVENING STANDARD 'Some spectacular twists and turns, lots of subversive humour and spiky observations' THE TIMES Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26

dagger-to-throat enemies to lovers

dragon-killer

But is she telling us the truth

When he comes out

In the ten years she's been rescuing field agents for the Syntex corporation - by commandeering their minds from afar and leading them to safety - Sil hasn't lost a single life

But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents' world

brilliant' - Seán Hewitt

But being on the set of a town called Slawter stirs up more than memories for Grubbs and his friend Bill-E

… Loved it

Astrid is finally free of the Sisterhood

Even today

as the new district ranger on the Natchez Trace