I read WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and am now a die-hard Lionel Shriver fan. Why had I not heard of her before? Is her publisher a lousy promoter or what? Maybe not as many people today are fans of such character-driven pieces (like I am). I liked this novel, but I must admit I thought the Gray Kaiser-George Corgie relationship deserved to be a novel in itself, not just a few chapters which glossed over the facts. This was much more compelling storytelling than an older woman falling for a younger man. And I especially liked that much of the story was told as Errol's fantasies.