Lionel Shriver writes big, feelingful, socially and emotionally engaged novels of everyday horror, perversion and compulsion in the tradition of Flaubert and Wharton. We Need To Talk About Kevin, a novel in letters written by the mother of a school shooter, won the prestigious Orange Prize in 2005 and became an international sensation. In this Sydney Ideas session she talks to University of Sydney academic and poet, Associate Professor Kate Lilley.
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