An atmospheric, disturbing, even scary tale that touches on otherworldliness' THE TIMES 'Too-cool-for-school teenage girls, an outsider welcomed into their fold, and murder.

Although a medical examiner listed 33 injuries to Smith’s body, including bite marks, when a police investigator was asked on the stand about the severity of her injuries, he said, “Honestly, I mean, I would have thought there would be more. The Amber Fury is a book I remembered fondly and have long considered a favourite, despite the fact that my review at the time – published on my now-defunct blog – contained quite a lot of criticism. This seems to me to be an example of what happens when the marketing department is allowed too much influence in a book's categorisation.

There was one piece in very poetic form and one that I unfortunately didn’t understand that was a graphic novel (graphic short story? The sense of women's complexity spills over in these pages, as the stories explore women's power, emotion, rage, calculation, flaws, humanity, and divinity, coming together to form a picture of the many traits, struggles and experiences we share across eras, cultures and continents, and yet the reader comes away remembering that for all that we have in common, everyone's story is wonderfully unique. And in The Furies Parker finds himself fighting to protect two more women as the city of Portland shuts down in the face of a global pandemic, but it may be that his clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined . it's a perfectly entertaining book - it held my interest and i wanted to see how it was all going to end, but it isn't really a "mystery" nor is it even "psychological suspense.

I felt that it was really the author's passion for Greek theatre which drove this novel rather than a real connection with the story she was weaving. The Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. All he knows is that someone just left his niece tied to a tree, eyes gouged out, mysterious symbols carved into her flesh, and now they’re on a murderous rampage through his town. The novelistic accounts of these three women provoke questions about how to achieve true gender equality, and offer profound insights in the quest for answers. Reeling from the death of her fiancé, theatre director Alex Morris makes a snap decision to move from London back to to Edinburgh, where she went to university.The first-person narrator, Alex Morris, flees from her former life as a theater director to take on the challenge of teaching dysfunctional kids in Edinburgh after the unfair death of her fiancée.

I remember seeing this when Karen wrote about it, and of course Virago were publicising it on social media. so, rather than being a The Secret History story of a charismatic teacher leading impressionable students astray, it's more of a "hey, maybe troubled kids should be taught by specialists and not just people who happen to know the director of a reform school" scenario. Nevertheless, Furies is a wonderful and very powerful collection of works by some excellent authors and the perfect way to mark the anniversary of an innovative publishing house which changed the landscape for women’s writing. I enjoyed the sense of inclusivity and representation, the richness that came with so many different perspectives exploring identity, gender, sexuality, patriarchy, femininity, motherhood, ageing, and more. Her novels are Room , The Sealed Letter , Landing , Life Mask , Slammerkin , Hood and Stir-fry ; short-story collections Astray , Three and a Half Deaths (UK ebook), Touchy Subjects , The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits , and Kissing the Witch ; and literary history including Inseparable , We Are Michael Field , and Passions Between Women as well as two anthologies that span the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.Yes, there is murder here - two murders in fact - but Natalie Haynes' fictional debut is really a novel of ideas. About the Author: Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries.

Even the titles of the stories in this anthology are symbolic in that they are words that are ordinarily used to describe women in not-so-pleasant terms. Fifteen award-winning, bestselling authors have written original stories embodying the spirit of Virago: feminist, fearless, fun, wild and defiant of convention. However, should the estimated publication date change for whatever reason, we will notify you within a reasonable period of time. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. I didn't enjoy every story though and some stories had an uncomfortable understone but all in all: this is great.Collection of 15 short stories, ranging from sassy story college-like Siren on roles on seducing man, to a sex worker whose also a mum, a woman in Victorian era gotta gave up her independence just to get married, and a man who ran because his dead wife decided to haunt him because he forced her to get pregnant and she died.