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# Femme Feral
- URL: https://www.sambeckbessinger.com/femme-feral/
- Published: 2024-08-17T08:51:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-12T08:26:23.000Z
- Description: Ever felt ready to HOWL?
- Author: Sam Beckbessinger

**United Kingdom & SA** 9 April **| United States** 12 May 2026

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**Hyper-competent Ellie thinks she’s going through perimenopause, but discovers she’s actually turning into a werewolf in this feminist dark comedy.**  

Daughter’s not talking to her, husband’s not listening to her, and she's got a promotion coming up at work. Ellie is 46-years old and like most women, is already juggling too much. So it’s an inconvenient time to find herself beset by mid-life symptoms: hair sprouting in new places, running hot, trouble sleeping, losing time, finding bloodstains in all her clothing. And underneath it all, a boiling rage that threatens to disrupt the life she’s worked so hard to build.  
  
Her doctor diagnoses perimenopause. But it’s another twenty-eight-day cycle that’s taking hold, one that involves fur, teeth, and a not-insignificant amount of howling at the moon. Suddenly the troubles in her life – hot flushes, thankless family, spiralling to-do list, oblivious husband, the w\*nker promoted above her at work – seem almost ... bite­size. 

Only, the beast within isn’t easy to control, and its bloody trail is getting harder to hide. With an obsessive hunter on her trail and a growing fear of what she’s becoming, Ellie must find a way to yoke her fury before she tears through the people she loves.  
  
A deeply gratifying, highly addictive and provocative read, *Femme Feral* is an exhilarating expression of feminine rage, with a warning: If you swallow your anger, it’s sure to come back with a bite.

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Published by Viking Penguin and Bloomsbury Archer. The US cover features an original illustration by the brilliant [Andreea Dumuta](https://www.instagram.com/galactixy%5Fillustrations/?ref=sambeckbessinger.com).

> **“Witty, thrilling, and SAVAGE." — Nat Cassidy** 

> **“A savage, witty, gory, heartfelt, utterly relatable rage fantasy and a helluva good time. Miranda July meets Stephen King.” –Lauren Beukes, *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Shining Girls***

> **'A fun and fierce look at womanhood and all the ways we hold back our rage. I laughed, cried and felt vindicated. Superb.'- Shubnum Khan**

> **'A thrillingly gory and radical novel.’ - RED Magazine**

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#### Content warnings

****Graphic**

- Animal death
- Death
- Drowning
- Hospitalisation
- Stalking

****Moderate**

- Gore
- Self-harm
- Suicide
- Grief over family death
- Elder abandonment
- Depression
- Vermin (specifically rats and spiders)

****Minor**

- Eating disorders
- Domestic abuse
- Fat phobia
- Divorce
- Anxiety

If you are boycotting any books where LLMs were involved, one (and only one) paragraph of the book was generated by ChatGPT to make a point about the vacuousness of LLM-writing, and disclosed as such in the author's note.

**If I've missed anything, please let me know!*