The Bandit Queens Av Parini Shroff

<p><b>Longlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction 2023</b><br><br><b>A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2023</b><br><br><b>''Not since Aravind Adiga''s <i>The White Tiger</i> has the rotten core of modern India been exposed in quite such blackly antic fashion as Parini Shroff manages here in this intermittently absurd, feminist revenge caper about a group of snarky, much-abused, predominantly Hindu wives...sheer gutsy verve.'' <i>The Times</i></b><br><b><br>''A darkly funny revenge drama rooted in the reality of rural India . . . [A] vivid, unsentimental story that succeeds in being both satirical and moving.'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>''A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of unsinkable women'' - <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>__________________________________<br><br><br>For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife...<br><br>Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too.<br><br>Geeta is believed to