Black Widow Society

There is a particular kind of joy reserved for reading a fast-paced book – the kind that keeps you hooked in the same way that a bingeable series does. Black Widow Society is a book for long winter nights when you have no responsibilities that require you to put it down. It is the throat burn of something dark, bitter and compelling. It is darkly funny in parts and just darkly dark in others, transmuting an all-too recognisable South African landscape of escalating violence and misogyny into psychologically satisfying vengeance and humour.