The Light and Shade of Ellen Swithin is another in the latest slew (geddit?) of books about women truly killing it.
Tag: empowered women
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways
Another female serial killer novel with gallows humour and deplorable men getting their comeuppance in myriad painful ways.
The Book of Secrets
We are plunged into 17th century Rome, where women strive to survive in a patriarchal world perhaps not so very different from our own.
Toxxic
A matriarchal world damaged by and struggling to move on from its patriarchal, violent past. A moving novel and a painful read.
What Doesn’t Kill Us
What Doesn’t Kill Us is a beautifully written, gripping and immersive, and still very relevant historical novel about misogyny and activism.
The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
Grace is a death scene cleaner. A well written, character-driven, immersive crime read. I loved it. Dark, disturbing and unusual.
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband is, surprisingly, a very moving AND uplifting AND very funny book about domestic abuse and violence. Really!
Murder by Natural Causes
If I’m going to use murder as light entertainment, at least it’s nice for the protagonist to be a woman. Especially if she’s good at her job.
A Bird in Winter
A Bird in Winter is beautifully written, well paced, at times exciting, at times more reflective. Older, career women will appreciate it!
