We Need To Talk About Kevin (eBook)

A study of despair, a book of ideas and a deconstruction of modern American morality

Once in a while, a stunningly powerful novel comes along, knocks you sideways and takes your breath away: this is it... a horrifying, original, witty, brave and deliberately provocative investigation into all the casual assumptions we make about family life, and motherhood in particular

What an amazing piece of storytelling. I could not put the book down.

This startling shocker strips bare motherhood... the most remarkable Orange prize victor so far

Pitch-perfect, devastating and utterly convincing

One of the most powerful books I've read... brilliant

Urgent, unblinking and articulate

This superb, many-layered novel intelligently weighs the culpability of parental nurture against the nightmarish possibilities of an innately evil child

An original and startling story of family life. A brilliant and thought-provoking read.

Shriver keeps up an almost unbearable suspense. It's hard to imagine a more striking demolition job on the American myth of the perfect suburban family

[A] powerful, painful novel... There are true, terrible things said here about family life

A fierce challenge of a novel that forces the reader to confront assumptions about love and parenting, about how and why we apportion blame, about crime and punishment, forgiveness and redemption and, perhaps most significantly, about how we can manage when the answer to the question why? is either too complex for human comprehension, or simply non-existent

One of my favourite novels... the best thing I've read in years