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Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary
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The Post-Birthday World
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Double Fault
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Lionel Shriver was born Margaret Ann Shriver into a highly religious family (her father was a Presbyterian minister).
Being a tomboy, she decided to choose a name that was conventionally male and so, at age 15, renamed herself Lionel.
She has lived in Nairobi, Belfast and Bangkok, being currently settled in London.
She has written many novels: he Female of the Species (1986), Checker and the Derailleurs (1987), The Bleeding Hearts (1990),
Ordinary Decent Criminals (1992), Game Control (1994), A Perfectly Good Family (1996) and Double Fault (1997).
In 2005, she won the Orange Prize for her 8th published novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin", a poignant and heartbreaking account of a woman, Eva's, life, starting form before her son Kevin's birth to the present where he is in prison for murdering his schoolmates and teacher and she is stigmatized. The book is written in a series of letters (sometimes brutally honest) to her estranged partner, Franklin.
In 2007 her most recent book "The Post Birthday World", which explores the consequences of a single choice through a paraller universe structure, was published.
In 2005, Lionel began writing a column for The Guardian (you can check out her articles here) , where she shared her opinions on many issues, including the importance of libraries.
Interestingly she has plans to will whatever assets she has when she dies, to the Belfast Library Board from where she borrowed innumerable books when she stayed in Belfast.
Being a tomboy, she decided to choose a name that was conventionally male and so, at age 15, renamed herself Lionel.
She has lived in Nairobi, Belfast and Bangkok, being currently settled in London.
She has written many novels: he Female of the Species (1986), Checker and the Derailleurs (1987), The Bleeding Hearts (1990),
Ordinary Decent Criminals (1992), Game Control (1994), A Perfectly Good Family (1996) and Double Fault (1997).
In 2005, she won the Orange Prize for her 8th published novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin", a poignant and heartbreaking account of a woman, Eva's, life, starting form before her son Kevin's birth to the present where he is in prison for murdering his schoolmates and teacher and she is stigmatized. The book is written in a series of letters (sometimes brutally honest) to her estranged partner, Franklin.
In 2007 her most recent book "The Post Birthday World", which explores the consequences of a single choice through a paraller universe structure, was published.
In 2005, Lionel began writing a column for The Guardian (you can check out her articles here) , where she shared her opinions on many issues, including the importance of libraries.
Interestingly she has plans to will whatever assets she has when she dies, to the Belfast Library Board from where she borrowed innumerable books when she stayed in Belfast.
