Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors

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Excellent read that did truly get to the heart of me – and a heads up, if you are lucky enough to have a copy with the added bonus of a short essay from Ms Haynes as an afterword talking about why the Greek Tragedies are perfect in conjunction with todays teenagers then make sure you give that a read when you are done. she cannot cope with her old life with its layer of new grief, so she leaves everything behind: her friends, her job, her possessions, and goes off to edinburgh, where she had studied theater in her youth. I didn't enjoy every story though and some stories had an uncomfortable understone but all in all: this is great.

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. Never quite sure how to properly rate anthologies; some of the short stories I absolutely loved and was disappointed that it wasn’t a full length novel but then there were others that I skim read as they just weren’t for me. The effect of considering all this heavyweight dramatic material laden with explosive themes such as guilt and sacrifice , destiny and revenge is that one of her dysfunctional students becomes obsessed with the tragedy that overtook Alex before her arrival in Edinburgh and decides to intervene in her life, with dreadful consequences. I'd say that it appears to be so predictable because the who-does-it question isn't really so much the point of the novel. A couple of the stories weren't my thing (Siren felt a touch heavy-handed, as though Atwood needed you to know how much she was rolling her eyes), but I either learned from them or learned about my likes and dislikes in the process.

She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. His latest novels just added up to the long list of average ones easily available and soon forgotten.

I felt for her in many ways, cause she is quite lonely (especially after her friendship with Carly starts to waver) and her parents are both, in their own ways, not great parents for her – I can understand why she would become so obsessed with this teacher who treats her as if she is a smart young woman with a lot of potential instead of a frustrating daughter or a troubled kid. That's a nuisance, because on the strength of The Amber Fury I'm going to have to get hold of them . We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. You'll feel like a powerhouse by the end and each story will move you in ways you could never imagine. Her most recent non-fiction book, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myth was published in Oct 2020, and reached number 2 in the New York Times Bestseller chart.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). I listened to the audiobook alongside reading the hardback and there were multiple narrators used throughout, which I very much appreciated.

I liked the writing and the pacing and found myself staying interested in the story and finishing it fairly quickly. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. She becomes a ‘dramatherapy’ teacher at the Unit, a service providing part-time education and therapeutic support to children who have been expelled or temporarily excluded from other schools. I wasn't disappointed by it as a book because it was a good book, an effective depiction of grief, with a strong protagonist to follow.

There is one class - a group of five teenagers - who intimidate Alex and every other teacher on The Unit. And in The Furies Parker finds himself fighting to protect two more women as the city of Portland shuts down in the face of a global pandemic, but it may be that his clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined . He is able now to visualise and even travel among the filaments of energies that power all existence: the furies. The Furies” of Flock’s title are three women who “took matters into their own hands,” defending themselves “in places where institutions failed to protect them.

I love stories that take place in schools or school settings, follow a select group of students and their teacher, and is just all about the stuff they are learning. It was quite obvious from the beginning that she was gonna be the central kid in this story, the one who does something horrible, and it was fun figuring out why she did what she did and how she got there. Her first novel, The Amber Fury, was published to great acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, as was The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, her previous book. I was determined to read this book, published this year to celebrate Virago Press’s 50th anniversary, this year, and I have got it in as hopefully my penultimate read. Haynes shines with these classroom vignettes, which capture the self-conscious, insecure and often raw nature of troubled teens.

Termagant” by Emma Donahue (4/5) is also set in the first half of the twentieth century and based on real characters. It is, and I did love that Atwood, to be honest, the collection is worth it for just that one, though there were several others I also loved.