![]() A powerful, gripping and original meditation on evil * New Statesman * Shriver keeps up an almost unbearable suspense. It is Desperate Housewives as written by Euripides. With We Need to Talk About Kevin, Shriver has wielded Kafka's axe with devastating force * Independent * One of the most striking works of fiction to be published this year. Franz Kafka wrote that a book should be the ice-pick that breaks open the frozen seas inside us, because the books that make us happy we could have written ourselves. the most remarkable Orange prize victor so far - Polly Toynbee * Guardian * An awesomely smart, stylish and pitiless achievement. a horrifying, original, witty, brave and deliberately provocative investigation into all the casual assumptions we make about family life, and motherhood in particular * Daily Mail * This startling shocker strips bare motherhood. Once in a while, a stunningly powerful novel comes along, knocks you sideways and takes your breath away: this is it. This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. She has read several books for Orion including We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. She was voted Female Performer of the Year at the Spoken Word Awards 2001 and her many audio book readings have been acclaimed. ![]() Television includes Cold Feet, Jonathan Creek and Monarch of the Glen. Lorelei King has worked on film in House of Mirth and Notting Hill. Her novel, We Need to Talk about Kevin, won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005. ![]() Lionel Shriver is a novelist and has written for The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer, amongst other publications. We Need to Talk About Kevin is her seventh novel. She is married to a jazz drummer and is based in London and New York.Her earlier novels include The Female of the Species, Ordinary Decent Criminals, A Perfectly Good Family and Game Control. She currently writes a weekly column for the Guardian.Born in the US, Shriver has lived in Nairobi, Bangkok and Belfast. Lionel Shriver is a novelist and has written for The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Enquirer, among other publications. ‘Harrowing, tense and thought-provoking, this is a vocal challenge to every accepted parenting manual you’ve ever read.’ Daily Mail ‘A great read with horrifying twists and turns.’ Marie Claire ‘By far the best novel I’ve read in years…exquisitely crafted…a breathtaking work of art.’ Age ![]() Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing the horrifying tableau of teenage carnage as a metaphor for the larger tragedy-the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose. How much is her fault? When did it all start to go wrong? Now, in a series of letters to her absent husband, Eva recounts the story of how Kevin came to be Kevin.įearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. Two years ago Eva Khatchadourian’s son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a popular teacher. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with Kevin’s horrific rampage, all in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin.Ī piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as “impossible to put down,” is a stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family.Now a major motion picture starring Tilda Swinton. Did her internalized dislike for her own son shape him into the killer he’s become? How much is her fault? But Eva was always uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood. Neither nature nor nurture exclusively shapes a child's character. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much–adored teacher in a school shooting two days before his sixteenth birthday. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them remains terrifyingly prescient.Įva never really wanted to be a mother. The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C.
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