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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Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 January 2009.
Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing 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. How much is her fault?
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 Serpents Tail
We Need to Talk About Kevin has 477 pages
Yes it is part of Serpent's Tail Classics series
£9.89
