The Bridport Literary Festival 2018

Fay Weldon and Luke Jennings creators of two of the wickedest women in fiction, talk about arson, fraud, murder most foul and illicit sex – just a few of the crimes committed by the heroines of their novels. Ruth, the 20th century notorious heroine of Weldon’s Life and Loves of a She-Devil and its sequel Death of a She-Devil will stop at nothing to get her revenge. Having just completed a routine assassination in Venice, the beautiful yet psychopathic Villanelle is determinedly on the trail of her next victim Eve, a senior MI5 officer. In Killing Eve: No Tomorrow (now an addictive BBC television series) Jennings traces the duel between the two women who have a mutual obsession with one another and the action moves from the Tyrol to the heart of Russia and desperation.