Piper Lass uns doch noch etwas bleiben

From the anomaly called life. Over a fateful sherry, Cyril and Kay Wilkinson decide to leave life at the age of eighty. Illness, decline, and suffering: the two know that after this, it will be downhill. The couple has thirty years left that they want to enjoy to the fullest. But what if one of the spouses cannot bring themselves to take the final step? What if they value the newfound freedom of old age so much that their plan slips out of focus? Or can death ultimately be overcome? Insightful, exuberant, and deeply touching, Lionel Shriver tells the story of aging, of nearly everlasting love, of grappling with mortality, and the countless ways in which life surprises us in the end. Because as quickly as the Wilkinsons' pact is sealed, it wavers more than once.

"A biting, comic thought experiment."
The Times
"Shriver's novels are wonderful... Witty, clever, and unlike anything else you will ever read."
Financial Times
"A reading pleasure... Delightfully inventive and consistently hilarious."
The Seattle Times.