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On the needling of a personal trainer called Bambi, whose body "recalled the diagrams of human musculature in anatomy textbooks", Remington decides to take on a triathlon too, a move his wife regards as "flagrantly impossible and mentally ill".

Though shes been active her whole life, Serenata rages against fitness fundamentalism, and the book explores how hostility to her husbands vainglorious training creates a fissure in their relationship. Wending through the narrative are reflections on ageing, long-term partnership and parenting, with Shriver on sure ground when exploring faddish, maniacal athleticism.

She also takes a detour with an easy swing at "perky evangelical positivism" through the couples daughter, a happy-clappy born-again Christian.

More controversially, though, she remains unrepentant at earlier charges levelled at her about political correctness, diversity and cultural appropriation, and there are elements in the book that seemed to be written to provoke her detractors.

Author Lionel Shriver.Credit:Edwina Pickles

Remington, for instance, is tired of hearing how privileged he is to be a member of the "straight white patriarchy" when he has to "check everything I plan to say three times before I allow it out".

It was an altercation with his boss that had cost him his job. (She just happened to be a young black woman who majored in gender studies.) As a voice artist for audiobooks and video games, Serenata also finds demand for her services has waned because her use of people-of-colour accents is deemed mimicry and problematic.

Such snark is unnecessarily heavy-handed, which is a shame as the rest of the book has a lot of interesting things to say about human fallibilities, personal beautification and the redemptive church of exercise.

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