Lionel Shriver

In a special Talking Books from Hay Festival, and as part of BBC World News' State of America Season, George Alagiah talks to author Lionel Shriver. Shriver is best known for her hard-hitting 2003 novel 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' which centres around a fictional school massacre and is told in a series of first-person letters; the book was a runaway success and lead to a film adaptation in 2011. Her new book 'The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047' focuses on three generations of a wealthy family as a fiscal crisis hits a near-future America.