The Robber Bride The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride

Includes the short story 'I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth'

    • 4.1 • 31 Ratings
    • £2.99

Publisher Description

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace

Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman''s nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make sure Tony, Roz andd Charis are there for the funeral. But five years on, as the three women share an indulgent, sisterly lunch, the unthinkable happens; 'with waves of ill will flowing out of her like cosmic radiation', Zenia is back...

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2009
3 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
480
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown Book Group
SIZE
1.5
MB

Customer Reviews

CALDAV ,

Robber Bride

Just wonderful, so clever, I have read it at least six times and always find something new in it.

StaffordKnot ,

Too much irrelevant backstory

Generally an admirer of Margaret Atwood, this one left me cold. In essence, it just needed a good editing to cut out the long series of backstories. Whilst they added some context for how the women acted, they had no bearing on the main plot and could have been significantly reduced without impacting the overall thrust of the book.

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