Big brother, by Lionel Shriver

This is plainly and simply the best book I have read this year – and probably for several years. I recommend it unreservedly to everyone. I found it hard work at the beginning, when the American style had me stumbling over sentences that didn’t quite read as I had expected them to read (and this isn’t a fault, but only what you will get with an American writer and an English reader), but I got used to it and became engrossed in the story. And I am not going to say any more than that – go and read it for yourself!