![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Once in a while, a stunningly powerful novel comes along, knocks you sideways and takes your breath away: this is it. Publisher: Profile Books Ltd ISBN: 9781781255674 Number of pages: 496 Weight: 396 g Dimensions: 204 x 128 x 36 mm Edition: Main - Classic edition MEDIA REVIEWS In Lionel Shriver's hands this sensational, chilling and memorable story of a woman who raised a monster becomes a metaphor for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose. ![]() Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about motherhood. Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing. Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2010Įva never really wanted to be a mother certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. ![]()
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