Synopsis
A dark and brilliant novel about a woman who decides not to be a victim anymore. She takes her life and the law into her own hands, exacting her revenge with stunning finality.
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About the Author
Helen Zahavi is a novelist and screenwriter and was born and educated in London. Her father came to England with the Polish Army during the Second World War, and her mother's parents came from Odessa. She worked as a Russian translator before becoming a writer, and has spent several years living in Paris.
Review
A dark and brilliant book - James Runcie, The Daily Telegraph
An act of writing that is avant-garde in the literal sense. A literary turning-point - Naomi Wolf, New Statesman & Society
Zahavi's hideous, kinky little revenge-novel - Salman Rushdie, The Independent on Sunday
If Oscar Wilde had written Death Wish, it would read like Dirty Weekend. This is a brave, brilliant and beautiful book. I wish I had written it - Julie Burchill
Glinting, rapier wit - Publishers Weekly
A slim, sharp stiletto of a book - Jim McClellan, i-D Magazine
Taut prose, black humour and a confrontational style make this a challenging and terrifyingly funny first novel - Time Out
I can still remember the visceral shock I felt as a young single womanreading Helen Zahavi's first novel, which burst upon a rather staidearly-1990s U.K. literary scene like a firework. Every woman who hasever had a fantasy about taking revenge on a man can identify with itsheroine - Louise Doughty, Wall Street Journal
As a piece of stylised thuggery - mordant humour run riot - the effect is stunning - Marie Claire
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