~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction - 2005

Through a series of startingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, We Need to Talk about Kevin follows a woman who never wanted to be a mother and was uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, coming to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and a horrific crime . . . 

Disturbing, frightening, and all too real, We Need to Talk about Kevin is Lionel Shriver's gripping internationally bestselling novel about motherhood gone awry.

“A slow, magnetic descent into hell, We Need to Talk about Kevin is as fascinating as it is disturbing.” -- Cleveland Plain Dealer