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Books at Breakfast: Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver
  1. Saturday 24 October
  2. 10.30am - 11.30am
  3. The Sage Gateshead, Hall Two
  4. In association with New Writing North

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Lionel Shriver is a novelist of international renown, best known for her controversial 2003 Orange prize-winning novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin, about a mother and her mass murderer son.

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