Women are angry \u2013 and women writers are channelling that fury and turning it into cathartic thrillers, tales of revenge and cannibalistic horror stories and my God, it\u2019s delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know this as a reader, an author and a woman who, like many, struggles to even look at daily news headlines without my insides churning with rage. When we have to plan our running routes around the possibility of being apprehended by a bad man, and when we see beautiful female movie stars trashed for \u2018ageing like milk\u2019 (and it\u2019s not just the men saying this) then you can forgive us for wanting to get lost in fiction where the tables are turned. Where women don\u2019t have to look pretty and play nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My most recent novel is my first published thriller \u2013 When Sally Killed Harry<\/em>. You can immediately tell from the title that this is feminist revenge (although I\u2019ve nothing against Billy Crystal\u2019s Harry \u2013 my<\/em> Harry\u2019s a different character entirely and a particularly nasty piece of work). But after writing novels exploring mental health<\/a>, addiction stigma and feminism, I wanted to take things a step further and use fiction cathartically. It\u2019s fantastical and humorous (so I\u2019m told!), and yet it explores some of the very real issues we see happening every day. Because sometimes, we just need to vent \u2013 and have fun while we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, I\u2019m nowhere near the first to do this. Feminist revenge stories have taken many forms and date back many years. But today, there\u2019s a real swell of books in this genre and a real appetite for them too. So here are some of my picks of stories exploring fury, rage, revenge and womanhood that I personally love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t