The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) - Fay Weldon

Written by Fay Weldon
Read by Gemma Dawson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
· Release date: 10-14-13
· Publisher: Audible Studios

This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic.

For example: Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it “…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.”

Or Rosalyn Drexler, who said on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, “It affords a scintillating, mindboggling, vicarious thrill for any reader who has ever fantasized dishing out retribution for one wrong or another.”

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 and embarked on a course of destruction and revenge. A blackly comic satire of the war of the sexes, LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL is the fantasy of the wronged woman made real.

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