Why Thomas loves this book
This is a fascinating novel with a light ironic touch, although it deals with serious, sometimes traumatic experiences. Once you start reading, you cannot put the book down. How does the author do it? We can think of The Robber Bride as a mock mystery.
There is no lack of criminal actions. A mysterious beautiful woman with an uncertain and dubious past intervenes in the lives of three Toronto women, taking away from them what they cherish most: their lovers and husbands, not to mention financial assets. That the bad woman finds a violent death at the end appears to confirm this reading. The threat has disappeared, and the heroines are reinstated in their rightful position. What is missing, however, is the traditional (male) detective who is expected to restore the social order. Instead, it becomes the task of the three women, a successful businesswoman, a professor of history (specializing…
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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 sure Tony, Roz andd Charis are there for the funeral. But five years on, as the three women share an indulgent, sisterly lunch, the unthinkable happens; 'with waves of ill will flowing out of her like cosmic radiation', Zenia is back...
