We Need to Talk About Kevin

Sunday Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver's gripping, startling and urgent international bestseller about motherhood gone awry, winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction.

Eva never really wanted to be a mother—certainly not the mother of the boy who murdered seven of his classmates, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher, two days before his sixteenth birthday.

Now, two years later, Eva must come to terms with the trauma of Kevin’s violent actions, in a series of painfully honest letters to her estranged husband, Franklin.

Above all, she must confront her fear that she raised a monster. And everything he has done is entirely her fault.

Author: Lionel Shriver

New York, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense

Published on 27 Aug 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers.