Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi

Dirty Weekend

Helen Zahavi

‘This is the story of Bella, who woke up one morning and realised she’d had enough.’

So begins Dirty Weekend, a tale of revenge…

From the Publisher

‘A brave, brilliant and beautiful book’ – Julie Burchill

‘As a literary turning-point, Dirty Weekend is significant; as a black comedy of very bad manners, it is sidesplitting; as a mimetic description of the revenge fantasies that women who have been sexually assaulted really do, if they are mentally healthy, experience, it is informative. But it would be a cop-out to explain this book as a refreshing metaphor for anything at all. It is, above all, an act; a warning.’ – Naomi Wolf, New Statesman & Society

‘If this book is given the serious feminist consideration which it deserves, it will cause uproar among us. Such uproar, division, grief and falling-out that one would prefer it had been released for, private reading only, among women only, and highly feminised women at that, before making it available to the general public. This book is that shocking… In the character of Bella, the humiliation and anger of Everywoman has been condensed, compressed and let explode against the oppressive weight of Everyman … Helen Zahavi has a fatally attractive way with murderous words.’ – Sunday Tribune

‘Zahavi stares reality in the face and tells the truth. The message she brings is unpleasant and discomfiting, but it cannot be ignored. In the best books about murder we learn something valuable about the darkness within the human condition and maybe we catch a glimpse of ourselves. These books are all too rare. Dirty Weekend is one such book. Zahavi should stick around and scare some more bleak truth into the lies of men.’ – Blitz

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