Terrorised and alone in a basement flat, Bella overcomes her fear and transforms herself from victim to avenger. Over the course of a very dirty weekend she goes out in the night and kills seven men and one myth.The men make the mistake of attacking her. The myth is that only women bleed.

• 'An act of writing that is avant-garde in the literal sense. A literary turning-point' - Naomi Wolf, New Statesman & Society
• 'A dark and brilliant book' - The Daily Telegraph
• 'Glinting, rapier wit' - Publishers Weekly
• 'Taut prose, black humour and a confrontational style make this a challenging and terrifyingly funny first novel' - Time Out
• 'I can still remember the visceral shock I felt as a young single woman reading Helen Zahavi's first novel - Louise Doughty, Wall Street Journal