Love Will Destroy Everything

by Rod Liddle

It's the UN's Genital Action Week, where the world's population is encouraged to reach out and explore sexually. Seven disparate individuals converge upon a west end hotel for a fatuous awards ceremony. There is the Lucasian professor of maths who has been commissioned to present a TV programme which explains Shcrodinger's Cat to the imbecilic masses. There's a thirty five year old man who has dumped his wife and kids for a younger, better equipped model. There's a feckless, arrant waiter called Claudio who is half way through his attempts to sleep with 700 women in one year. There's the foreign secretary, who may or may not be a vampire. There's a pathologist who has discovered that hospital superbugs are caused by bad television programmes. There's a fourteen-year-old pop singer, Stella Z and her dubious father. And there's the beautiful Sahira Shah who is, once again, a suicide bomber. But a GOOD one. What's it about? Modern notions of love and sex, informed by evolutionary psychology. Rootlessness and serial monogamy. Bad TV, stupidity and delusion. And Schrodinger's Cat.

240 pages, Hardcover

Published May 3, 2007