'A fairy tale of malicious simplicity' Salman Rushdie

Zeina 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 and 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', Zeina is back . . .

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