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Byline: Megan O'grady
One woman, two chances at love: Such is the premise of Lionel Shriver's huge and hugely entertaining The Post-Birthday World (HarperCollins), which explores, in Sliding Doors-style parallel narratives, its heroine's possible romantic fates. Children's-book illustrator Irina McGovern has been living contentedly in London with her longtime boyfriend, Lawrence Trainer, a wonky terrorism specialist who makes up for in reliability what he lacks in ardor. But when the prospect of a different kind of life appears in the ...