Shriver’s characters are contemplating when and how to die rather than if, and the book has moments of profundity, especially when its characters’ heads and hearts refuse to align. Of course, it is no more an option to “stay” in any permanent way for Kay and Cyril than it is for any of us.
Should We Stay or Should We Go is sometimes funny, often diverting, always driving towards an urgent answer to its question. “You’re the one who had to go on that big Trafalgar demonstration against the poll tax – which would have raised money for social care and a great deal else,” says Kay to her husband, somewhat formally.
Snippets of dialogue between Kay (who voted Leave in the referendum) and Cyril (an ardent Remainer) seem more for exposition’s sake than reflective of their intimacy.
Unsurprisingly for a book that privileges philosophising over narrative drive, Should We Stay or Should We Go features a lot of arguments which, one senses, Shriver herself would like to be having.
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