Spilled Salt by Barbara Neely

We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by the FEMALE writer Lionel Shriver concerning a fictional school massacre. It is written from the perspective of the killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her son Kevin and the murders he committed. Although told in the first person as a series of letters from Eva to her husband, the novel's structure also strongly resembles that of a thriller. The novel, Shriver's seventh, won the 2005 Orange Prize.

I've not yet read the novel but heard it reviewed on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read today.

As I listened to the discussion I thought, 'But that's Spilled Salt by Barbara Neely!' or 'The Outside Dog' by Alan Bennett. I can't wait to read Shriver's book to see if she's actually added anything to the way Neely and Bennett handled such similar themes.