Hell Hath No Fury (Hachette India) is a compilation of 13 short stories about revenge. The title is fittingly borrowed from the English playwright William Congreve’s play, The Mourning Bride. In her introduction, the editor Shinie Antony writes, “A woman who plots revenge reinvents herself, reclaims the planet: This place is mine too. She is not waiting for applause… just righting wrongs.” The characters in the book display a range of traits, countering the stereotype of a “demure, shy” woman, with their daring, wit, strangeness, and defiance.

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