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07/07/2021 GMT

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Lionel Shriver's latest book explores themes around ageing and voluntary euthanasia

The American writer Lionel Shriver tackles voluntary euthanasia in her latest book but she's also been outspoken in the western world's so-called culture wars.

In our culture of 24/7 news and trending social media reactions, it sometimes takes a novelist’s eye to chart the deeper, current events swirling beneath society’s surface. Lionel Shriver is a British-based American writer whose fiction has addressed school shootings, obesity, economic crisis and in her latest book, voluntary euthanasia. She’s a contrarian, but is she also a combatant in the western world’s culture wars?

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