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The titles are all synonyms for virago (the Furies reference the classical Greco-Roman goddesses of vengeance) but there’s no superficiality or sameness in their interpretation.
Wench” by Kirsty Logan (4/5)is a beautifully written story that broke my heart but shows resilience among women trapped in unfortunate circumstances. Fury was genuinely inspiring and based on a true story and I really enjoyed it; Dragon had some incredible writing and I had to take note of a few sentences that were just so strong; Churail was haunting and stuck with me for a couple days after.not a bad thing at all, but if you are looking for The Secret History knockoffs like i always am, know that this is not the same kind of narrative arc. I was critical of various implausible plot points, including the unlikeliness of Alex’s career trajectory for someone in their mid-twenties, the ‘curiously self-contained’ nature of the Unit, and a key legal revelation close to the end. To celebrate Virago's fiftieth birthday, fifteen award-winning, bestselling authors have written original stories embodying the spirit of Virago: feminist, fearless, fun, wild and defiant of convention. Vituperator” by Helen Oyeyami (5/5) features a protagonist whose tendency to voice brutally honest views about people lands her a dream job. Alex has suffered a terrible loss and wants to try and make a whole new life – when in an effort to engage some of the more difficult students at the Pupil Referral Unit where she teaches she decides to get them interesting in the Greek Tragedies, in her pain she is oblivious to the emotional affects these stories are having on them.
The characters were fully fleshed out, and the characters' inner conflicts were really well portrayed. and the contrast between the Festival weeks, with all the Fringe lunacies, and the somewhat staider betweentimes. About the Author: Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries.Although progress tends to be a matter of one step forward, two steps back, the kids do seem to be responding to her work with them -- to the amazement of all concerned, not least Alex herself, who's still incapable of struggling free of her world-filling grief over Luke's death.
Her goal is to use drama therapy to help them “to find ways of talking about terrible emotions and difficulties, without focusing on their own lives all the time.
Knowing how desperate she is to get away from London and all the reminders of what happened, her old drama tutor Robert offers her a job in Edinburgh using her secondary qualification in dramatherapy to help recalcitrant kids at a special-needs unit. The Furies is deeply respectful of its subjects’ autonomy, including their self-justifications and mistakes.
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