Mania: The latest novel from the awardwinning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

Seldom Is A Book As Funny, Important And Timely I Was Laughing Out Loud At The Same Time As My Blood Was Running Cold John CleeseViciously Funny An Exhilarating Satire The TimesMerciless A Welcome Distraction Economist, Best Books Of 2024What If Calling Someone Stupid Was Illegal?In A Reality Not Too Distant From Our Own, Where The SoCalled Mental Parity Movement Has Taken Hold, The Worst Thing You Can Call Someone Is Stupid.Everyone Is Equally Clever, And Discrimination Based On Intelligence Is The Last Great Civil Rights Fight.Exams And Grades Are All Discarded, And Smart Phones Are Rebranded. Children Are Expelled For Saying The SWord And Encouraged To Report Parents For Using It. You DonT Need A Qualification To Be A Doctor.Best Friends Since Adolescence, Pearson And Emory Find Themselves On Opposing Sides Of This New Culture War. Radio Personality Emory Who Has Built Her Career Riding The Tide Of Popular Thought Makes Increasingly HardLine Statements While, For Her Part, Pearson Believes The Whole Thing Is Ludicrous.As Their Friendship Fractures, PearsonS Determination To Cling Onto The Old, Bigoted Way Of Thinking Begins To Endanger Her Job, Her Safety And Even Her Family.Lionel Shriver Turns Her Piercing Gaze On The Policing Of Opinion And Intellect, And Imagines A World In Which Intellectual Meritocracy Is Heresy. Hilarious, Deadpan, Scathing And At Times Frighteningly Plausible, Mania Will Delight The Many Fans Of Her Fiction And Journalism Alike.