Lionel Shriver has won the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction for We Have to Talk about Kevin, a book that, in the words of the chair of the judging panel, Jenni Murray, "acknowledges what many women worry about but never express, the fear of becoming a mother and the terror of what kind of child one might bring into the world."
If you're wondering about the first name of the author (the Orange prize is awarded to women novelists), Shriver was christened Margaret Ann, but changed her name in her teens.
Read more about Shriver and her book here.
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