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Furies by Margaret Atwood

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3.0

The ratings of each story is below with a rough reminder of what it’s about/ what it features: 

- Siren 4* (a knitting club that’s underwater) 

- Virago 3.5* (a trans or lesbian wife, two doctors and a diagnosis)

- Churail 3* (a cultural female creature that calls to people)

- Termagant 3* (a maid who hates her job, a fiancé and WW2) 

- Wench 2.5* (weirdly structured; no punctuation or commas, young girls, demon exorcists and a ‘sanctuary’)

- Hussy 3* (a porn actress and a guy called Derek Hussy) 

- Vituperator 2* (artificial intelligence and a woman teaming up with it and having ‘clients’) 

- Harridan 2.5* (clearly covid or some other pandemic, old woman and young couple, neighbours, mentions animal harm 😞) 

- Warrior 3* (war, mother of Israel, an Army) 

- She-devil 3* (graphic novel format, chair, weird and scary mum) 

- Muckraker 2.5* (grieving, death, a woman dating and ex-wives) 

- Spitfire 2* (war, planes) 

- Fury 3* (Germans, Nazi, Jewish women fighting back) 

- Tygress 3.75* (the death of a mother tiger, funeral, sad) 

- Dragon 3.5* (menopause)