Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About Kevin Review

Overall Rating

Very thought provoking and different from anything else I've read in months, and I read A LOT!

Disturbing - forces us to confront aspects of human nature we would prefer to ignore!

We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver is a page-turner of an account of a mother bringing up a difficult child who ends up committing a horrendous crime. The book is non-judgemental, and you are left to make up your own mind about who might be at fault - is the mother's lack of love for her child at fault, or was the child 'born evil' somehow, and therefore impossible to love? Or is it the fault of society? Good one for (open minded) book groups.