{"product_id":"9781781255674","title":"We Need To Talk About Kevin","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Shriver, Lionel, Mosse, Kate \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 28 January 2016 by Profile Books Ltd (Serpent's Tail) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Serpent's Tail Classics' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 496 pages\u003cbr\u003e131 x 198 x 31 | 386g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2005ONE MILLION COPIES SOLDEva 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. 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. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about motherhood. How much is her fault? 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491329687938,"sku":"9781781255674","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9781781255674.jpg?v=1753744357","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.live\/products\/9781781255674","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}