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Book Synopsis''ONE OF OUR VERY BEST WRITERS'' Sunday Times
''A tour de force''
The Times
''Intoxicating''
Daily Telegraph
''Devilishly delightful''
New York Times Book Review
''Beautifully and compellingly written''
Sunday Express
''Audacious''
Times Literary Supplement
THE BESTSELLING CLASSIC TALE OF A WOMAN SCORNED, FROM A MUCH-LOVED BRITISH AUTHOR
Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish.
Rather the opposite in fact - simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy that she becomes truly diabolic. Within weeks she has burnt down the family home, collected the insurance, made love to the local drunk
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A tour de force: a macabre, fast-moving moral fable * The Times *
More audacious and striking in design than anything that has gone before . . . carried out with such dash and glitter * Times Literary Supplement *
Rousing . . . stimulating . . . the fun grows steadily blacker and wilder * Guardian *
A savage, sadistic even, but beautifully and compellingly written satire * Sunday Express *
Intoxicating * Daily Telegraph *
A novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage like love turned to hate, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned * New York Magazine *
Devilishly delightful . . . It affords a scintillating, mindboggling, vicarious thrill for any reader who has ever fantasised dishing out retribution for one wrong or another * New York Times Book Review *
What makes this a powerfully funny and oddly powerful book is the energy of the language and of the intellect that conceived it, an energy that vibrates off the pages and that makes She Devil as exceptional a book in the remembering as in the reading . . . . a small, mad masterpiece * Washington Post *
Fantastic . . . a carefully worked-out fable, satiric and finally bitter . . . it's very funny * Chicago Tribune *
