Five best novels with vengeful women

Louise Doughty is the author of the novels Crazy Paving, Dance with Me, Honey-Dew, Fires in the Dark, Stone Cradle, and Whatever You Love, as well as the nonfiction book A Novel in a Year.

One of her five favorite tales of vengeful women, as told to the Wall Street Journal:Dirty Weekend
by Helen Zahavi (1991)

I can still remember the visceral shock I felt as a young single woman reading Helen