Books
by Lionel Shriver
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So Much for That |
This is a book - not only a very good novel, one of those you can't put down - but a book that makes you think. Gladys' illness (cancer) is frightening, as is the amount of money Shep, her husband, has to spend in order to do . . . what? Give her a few more painful months to live? It asks all the good questions about life, death, love and what is worth it. Read it.
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 58 Autumn 2010) |
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We Need to Talk about Kevin |
Eva Khatchadourian writes to her estranged husband her version of their sons Kevin's upbringing till that fatal day when he killed nine people just three days before his sixteenth birthday! It is constructed like a thriller and often you gasp at what you learn. It makes you think hard: what makes a monster - his parents? his upbringing? himself? A very interesting read indeed.
* Winner of this year's Orange Prize.
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 29 April 2005) |
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