Longlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction 2023
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2023
''Not since Aravind Adiga''s The White Tiger has the rotten core of modern India been exposed in quite such blackly antic fashion as Parini Shroff manages here in this intermittently absurd, feminist revenge caper about a group of snarky, much-abused, predominantly Hindu wives...sheer gutsy verve.'' The Times
''A darkly funny revenge drama rooted in the reality of rural India . . . [A] vivid, unsentimental story that succeeds in being both satirical and moving.'' Guardian
''A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of unsinkable women'' - New York Times
''Mordantly humoured, pacey feminist revenge thriller'' - The Sunday Times
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For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife...
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