Episode 3: Lionel Shriver on her highly anticipated new novel 'The Motion of the Body Through Space'

 

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Lionel Shriver, best-selling author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, turns her razor-sharp eye on the fitness industry in her latest book, The Motion of the Body Through Space. Here she talks about some of the book’s major themes, including ageing and mortality, and when a healthy desire to keep fit tips over into an unhealthy fanaticism, akin to a religious conversion.

 

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Nicole Abadee