Description
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 and selected as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick in 2023, this darkly irreverent feminist revenge thriller follows a group of snarky, much-abused, predominantly Hindu wives in rural India. For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife, until the other women in her village decide they want to become widows too. Geeta is believed to have killed her missing husband, a rumour she has not tried to correct because such a reputation can keep a single woman safe. When another wife asks for help getting rid of her abusive, drunken husband, Geeta reluctantly agrees, setting in motion a chain of events that changes the lives of all the women in the village. The novel combines adventure, thriller, dark revenge and comedy, offering an intermittently absurd and radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands. It is recommended for readers of My Sister the Serial Killer, How To Kidnap The Rich and the Sharon Horgan series Bad Sisters.
Information
Author: Shroff Parini
Language: English
Publication date: March 2, 2023
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (TBS/GBS)
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Fiction in english
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 340
ISBN/EAN: 9781838957155