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Zip him in a bodybag

Nicole Flattery, 21 May 2026

Trip 
by Amie Barrodale.
Cape, 298 pp., £16.99, February, 978 1 78733 593 6
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... advertising executive, is asked by an Italian doctor: ‘Why do Americans want to be immortal?’ Amie Barrodale’s first novel, Trip, offers a playful reformulation of this question. In some ways, it’s a send-up of a culture obsessed with ‘healthmaxxing’, where ageing and death are treated as intolerable embarrassments. ...

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