We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (Paperback)

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“Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian kills seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, her account of Kevin’s upbringing.”

‘A book that acknowledges what many women worry about but never express: the fear of becoming a mother and the terror of what kind of child one might bring into the world’ Jenni Murray

‘Forces the reader to confront assumptions about love and parenting, about how and why we apportion blame, about crime and punishment, forgiveness and redemption’ Lisa Gee, Independent

‘A book about the dangerous distance that exists between what we feel and what we are actually prepared to admit when it comes to family life… a book about what we need to talk about, but can’t’ Guardian

‘An awesomely smart, stylish and pitiless achievement. 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 write ourselves. Shriver has wielded Kafka’s axe with devastating force’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent