We Need to Talk About Kevin

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

First edition cover
Author	Lionel Shriver
Language	English
Genre	Epistolary novel
Publisher	Counterpoint Press
Publication date	April 14, 2003
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback and hardback)
Pages	416
ISBN	1-58243-267-8
OCLC	50948454
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3569.H742 W4 2003

We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, published by Serpent's Tail, about a fictional school massacre. It is written from the first person perspective of the teenage killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her psychopathic son Kevin and the murders he committed, as told in a series of letters from Eva to her husband.

The novel, Shriver's seventh, won the 2005 Orange Prize, a UK-based prize for female authors of any country writing in English. In 2011 the novel was adapted into a film.