Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian kills seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin's upbringing. For this powerful, shocking novel, Lionel Shriver was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Lorelei King has appeared in many prestigious film, television and radio tides, including Notting Hill, Cold Feet, Monarch of the Glen, Jonathan Creek, Chef , and the Radio 4 remake of 1940s Groucho Marx scripts, Flywheel, and Shyster . She was voted Female Performer of the Year at the 2001 Spoken Word Awards .