We need to talk about who’s to blame

The film of Lionel Shriver’s award-winning novel about teen spree killer Kevin examines parental responsibility and nature versus nurture, says Caroline Delaney.

We need to talk about who’s to blame

WITH a history of sneaky and violent behaviour, a teenage boy massacres his schoolmates.

Is he a confused and lonely soul, who senses his mother didn’t warm to him even when she was pregnant? Was it a cry for attention from adults who failed to recognise how clever and bored he had been for the previous decade? Was he born evil and spent his formative years working up to this awful deed?

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