1991.Both healthy medicals professionals in their fifties, Kay and Cyril have seen too many of their elderly patients in states of decay. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: they should agree to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty. Lionel Shriver portrays twelve parallel universes, each exploring a possible future for Kay and Cyril, weaving in a host of contemporary issues - Brexit, mass migration, the coronavirus... Hilarious and thought provoking.