'The Robber Bride' by Margaret Atwood
'Even Zenia's name is enough to provoke the old sense of outrage, of humiliation and confused pain. The truth is that at certain times - early mornings, the middle of the night - she finds it hard to believe that Zenia is really dead.' Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy; by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman's nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make absolutely sure, Tony, Roz and Charis are there for the funeral. But five years on, as the three women share a sisterly lunch, the impossible happens: 'with waves of ill will flowing out of her like cosmic radiation', Zenia is back...