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Alice Thomas Ellis introduces a collection of revenge stories by some contemporary women writers. She studies the history of women's revenge against men, and emerges with enlightening insights into the dynamic differences that place the sexes in passionate opposition. This book seeks not to relay the ever burgeoning factual accounts of how women get their own back, but to show their reactions to betrayal, cruelty and simple nastiness through the filter of fiction. One of the most satisfying means of revenge, as these authors clearly realise, is to put the offender in a story.