On the whole, though, it kept me entertained to the end. Some of it inevitably works better than other bits and the mirroring of images and tropes throughout the different versions sometimes felt contrived. What if they 'cured' old age? What if Britain was swamped in illegals? What if you could be cryogenically frozen - and so on. I really enjoyed this but then I do fit the demographic (being someone 'Death is starting to take an interest in' to steal an image from Amis) Shriver uses a punchy concept - like the Billy Idol song title - to pull together the strands of a number of modern anxieties and preoccupations Brexit, the pandemic, immigration, to name a few and then spin them off as a set of whimsical hypotheses.
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