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I was also unenthusiastic about the story’s heavy focus on the teenage characters, finding this gave the whole thing too much of a YA feel for my liking. Alex takes a job at a Pupil Referral Unit, which accepts the students excluded from other schools in the city.To celebrate Virago's fiftieth birthday, fifteen award-winning, bestselling authors have written original stories embodying the spirit of Virago: feminist, fearless, fun, wild and defiant of convention. They track and kill those who’ve murdered and have escaped justice, killing them in as bloody a fashion as possible. Siren” by Margaret Atwood(5/5) is both imaginative and laugh-out-loud funny while sending a strong message.

The stories are all synonyms for 'virago' which means 'a domineering, violent or bad tempered woman. In fact, the diary entries written by Mel – one of Alex’s students – now read to me as by far the strongest part of the novel: she has a believable voice; her narrative pushes the plot forward while also articulating her personal experience of deafness effectively. Instead, Haynes used the plot of Alex, a theatre director, teaching juvenile delinquents about Greek drama as a way to ask whether certain themes and issues addressed in Greek drama are still relevant today and how they would be assessed today. Overall I'm so glad I got my hands on this collection and there was so much spirit to it as a collection examining women in all shapes and stages of life (including menopausal and older women in Dragon by Stella Duffy) so I LOVED that aspect of the book.Alex has suffered a terrible loss and wants to try and make a whole new life – when in an effort to engage some of the more difficult students at the Pupil Referral Unit where she teaches she decides to get them interesting in the Greek Tragedies, in her pain she is oblivious to the emotional affects these stories are having on them.

Spitfire” by Ali Smith (4/5) is nostalgic in tone and delves into a daughter’s memories of her mother who once served in WAAF during WWII. this is not a stand and deliver inspirational teacher kind of book, where troubled kids make good, but alex manages to obtain a kind of grudging respect from them, and the very special regard of one student in particular, who develops an obsessive need to find out everything about alex - where she goes, what she does, what is at the root of her palpable sorrow. Tā kā autoru un stāstu daudz un negribu kaukultēt, kopējais iespaids, ka vispār jā, patika, bet sajūsmā neesmu. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. His non-fiction work includes ‘The Guga Hunters’, ‘Italian Chapel, Orkney’, (Birlinn) and ‘Herring Tales’ (Bloomsbury).What about Margaret Atwood (top billing, but of course), Kamila Shamsie, Helen Oyeyemi, Emma Donoghue, to name just four?

She was charged with murder, and planned to invoke a “ stand your ground” defense — a statute that permits the use of lethal force against deadly threats. Wench and Hussy deny women’s rights to free sexuality; Spitfire and She-Devil try to force them into quietness and acceptance; Muckraker and Harridan imply nastiness. This book has women of colour, queer women, old women, trans women, women based in history and mythology and complete and utter fantasy. You are introduced to Detective Dan when is witnesses one such attempt at vengeance by the Fury, Megaera.One fascinating aspect of this stimulating collection is the sheer variety of styles used by the authors; some are relatively straightforward narratives, some complex and experimental (such as Kirsty Logan’s Wench), and there is even a short graphic piece She-Devil by Eleanor Crewes which is a rather unnerving exploration of a toxic mother-daughter relationship. I’m not quite sure what I found so appealing about Alex, who, this time, I experienced as a rather bland character. In “The Furies,” the journalist Elizabeth Flock reports the stories of three women who fought back — to defend themselves, other women or their people. But little blemishes like these are overwhelmingly outweighed by the novel's many merits -- not least the fact that it's an absolutely gripping read.