Game Control

<p>From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft droll touch Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would save humanity but who don't like people.</p> <p>Eleanor Merritt a do-gooding American family-planning worker was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite or perhaps because of his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.</p> <p>Set against the vivid backdrop of modern-day Africa Game Control is a wry sardonic conspiracy story about bad ideas and good intentions.</p>