| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Summary |
Vera Magpie explores the gap between childhood fantasies of adult life and the stark reality of life in a women's prison. The eponymous narrator, Vera Magpie herself, is serving time for the murder of her three husbands, including Larry, a good man whom she loves, but doomed to die at Vera's hands because she has acquired a taste for murder. In prison, Vera experiences the reality that here are politics and a pecking order, just as in society at large, but here also she finds redemption through literature. Like many women who kill, Vera is a product of her own flawed past. But aspects of this past also count towards her early release from prison, as her new female lawyer successfully argues Battered Women's Syndrome as a defence. |
| Subject |
Women prisoners -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
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Women prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01178398
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| ISBN |
9789888227464 (electronic bk.) |
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9888227467 (electronic bk.) |
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