The Love of a Bad Man. Cet article n’est pas disponible.The Love of a Bad Man

An electrifying debut short story collection about the wives, lovers, and mistresses of history's most notorious men, for fans of Emma Cline's The Girls.

A schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany.

A pair of childhood sweethearts reunite to commit rape and murder.

A devoted Mormon wife follows her husband into the wilderness after he declares himself a prophet.

The stories in The Love of a Bad Man imagine the lives of real women, all of whom were the lovers, wives, or mistresses of various men in history. Beautifully observed, fascinating, and at times horrifying, the stories interrogate power, the nature of obsession, and the lengths some women will go to for the men they love.

Laura Elizabeth Woollett was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. She moved to Melbourne after high school and, in 2012, completed an honours degree in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Her first novel, The Wood of Suicides, was written while she was an undergraduate, and concerns a teacher-student relationship. It was published in the US in early 2014. The same year, she was awarded a Wheeler Centre/Readings Foundation Hot Desk Fellowship and the John Marsden/Hachette Prize for Fiction. In 2015, she was chosen as one of Melbourne Writers Festival s 30 Under 30 . She is currently at work on her second novel, Beautiful Revolutionary, about a young counterculture couple who become involved with Jim Jones Peoples Temple in late 60s California.