Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005.
Narrated by a mother, Eve, in letters to her estranged husband, this is a truly horrific story of a 15-year old boy’s killing spree but more than that it's the tale of how he got there rather than of the crime itself. It harks back to Eve’s relationship with her husband and the upbringing of the child. The big question is how much she is, or not, to blame for the tragedy that unfolds. Stark and unbelievably painful, it touches on truths not often spoken of. A great book.
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Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband, Franklyn. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails.
We Need To Talk About Kevin features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Crime and Mystery, Family Drama, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
We Need To Talk About Kevin is available in Paperback, Ebook
We Need To Talk About Kevin was written by Lionel Shriver and published by Profile Books Ltd
Yes it is part of Serpent's Tail Classics series
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