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Lionel Shriver is an American journalist and author, and won the 2005 Orange Prize for We Need to Talk About Kevin - about the relationship between a career mother and her disturbingly cruel son. Born Margaret Ann Shriver into a deeply religious family, she changed her name at the age of 15 to Lionel because as a tomboy she felt that a conventionally male name was a better fit.
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External links

Lionel Shriver - Wikipedia
Lionel Shriver profile - Harper Collins
Lionel Shriver Guardian articles
Lionel Shriver: 'I sold my family for a novel'
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Lionel Shriver's books (32)

We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
Paperback
500 pages
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
Paperback
436 pages
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
CD-Audio
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The Post-birthday World
Lionel Shriver
Hardback
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The Post-birthday World
Lionel Shriver
Paperback
608 pages
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Double Fault
Lionel Shriver
Paperback
352 pages
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Double Fault
Lionel Shriver
Paperback
354 pages
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The Post-birthday World

Angela Gray

I found We Need To Talk About Kevin fascinating but this book disappointed. I managed to read... More...

2 years ago

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Melanie Vasseur

Oof. Scary and unpleasant and disturbing, but gripping. More...

2 years ago

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