About This Book
Two years after their son Kevin commits a high-school massacre, Eva is coming to terms with both the devastation he's wrought and her own mixed feelings about her child. Told through letters from Eva to her absent husband, the novel explores the ambivalences of motherhood, the nature of evil, and culpability. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005; a Women's Prize classic included in the 2005-2025 reading list.
About the Author
Lionel ShriverAmerican
Lionel Shriver is an American novelist born in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1957. She studied at Columbia University. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005 and was adapted into a film. Read more →
