The dancer. The mother. The cop. The artist. The wife.
These women live by countless unspoken rules. How to dress; who to trust; which streets are safe, and which are not. The rules grow out of a kaleidoscope of fear, anguish, power, loss and hope. Maybe it is only these rules which keep them alive.
When their neighbourhood is rocked by two murders, the careful existence these women have built for themselves begins to crumble...
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HEY, YOU WANNA PULL BACK THE CURTIN, LEMME SEE YOUR FACE FEELA, 1999
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(@FaberBooks, 5 November 2020, 357 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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This has been on my TBR list for ages because I'd heard so many people raving about it. I was delighted to be approved for a copy on NetGalley but haven't gotten around to reading it until now. I was blown away by These Women, it's exactly as fantastic as I expected it to be, one of the few times when the hype is spot on. I read a lot of thriller's and this offers a unique POV, focusing on the murder's potential victims rather than the killer or police. This is a powerful, impressive book that deals with fear created in a neighbourhood by the threat of violence, but also how society often view women and their bodies in a negative way and women generally not being listened to. This is an evocative read.
