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Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon tells the story of her turbulent and controversial life.
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Fay Weldon’s first novel, a parable on the way people see themselves.
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Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts. TWAYNES UNITED STATES…
From a wickedly funny writer who never fails to amuse comes a memoir that looks back on her life as wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, and bon vivant.
This is a study of the shifting inter-relationships between three young couples, following the developments with sympathy and a certain ironic humour, through a span of twenty-five years.3 women, 3…
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Trendy magazine Femina offers two contrasting wives - country-bumpkin Anne and sophisticate Cat - GBP1000 to swap places for a week to compare lifestyles. Anne goes to London to run…
A witty, astutely observed study of sexual politics in contemporary society which centres on an all-female reading group. Oriole wants to study contemporary authors, while Anne prefers well-known classics. Pondering…
An absorbing, inventive novel of love, death and aristocracy in inter-war London.
This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example: Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it … a novel of blazingly hot…
Suburban complacency and marital infidelity get their comeuppance in this black comedy.
As a study of fiction, femininity and family it is bursting with intelligence and fire –from the award-winning author of Death of a She Devil (The Telegraph).
Your writer, in…
In this title. 20 stories profile therapists who blithely destroy marriages and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their indifference, and clever women navigating the perils and…
Weldon, renowned for her biting humor and devilish prose, offers a glimpse of the despairs and dalliances of a set of high-powered women who have burned paths through–and sometimes been…
The river has burst its banks and Cynthia, with her leg in plaster, watches as her husband and daughters Angela and Jane try to save their antiques business. But the…
Smart, sexy, and infinitely charming, Rhode Island Blues tells the story of Sophia Moore, a loveless and guarded 34-year-old film editor in London who believes that her only living relative…
The third and final instalment in Fay Weldon’s Love & Inheritance trilogy sees the Dilbernes frantically preparing for a visit from the Royals.
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A pitch-perfect story of life above and below stairs and an elegy to the last days of aristocracy and Empire.
From the award-winning writer of the original Upstairs Downstairs –the second novel in an irresistible trilogy about an Earl’s family and his servants at the turn of the 20th century.
Originally published: Great Britain: Head of Zeus, 2016.
One of Britian’s best loved writers chooses her best short stories from her career at the forefront of contemporary fiction.
Sequel to The Life and Loves of a She Devil. In Weldon’s 1983 classic, women fought men for power and won. But now the fight continues on a new front…
New from the author of Wicked Women and Big Girls Don’t Cry comes a quirky tale about the adventures of a Bulgari diamond necklace and a newfound romance.
After brushing past each other on the stairs above their local laundromat, Trice and Peter instantly and mysteriously switch souls. But none of this is half as awkward as when…
A brilliant and caustic cautionary tale from one of Britain’s best-loved and most controversial writers.
A provocative view of modern society weaved into a tale of explosive love and, perhaps, even, black magic.
A chilling tale that interweaves the post-Watergate world of American politics and the way in which our past indiscretions inevitably catch up with us.
When a marriage meets a therapist…
After going through a divorce, Angelica’s personality splinters into several bickering interior voices, including wronged Lady Rice, clever Jelly White, and promiscuous Angel.
In this novel, a celebrated London actress suffers nervous delusions when her husband dies under mysterious circumstances and her friends seem strangely eager to smooth out all the complications of…
On a balmy evening in 1971, five women meet in a cramped living room in the suburbs of London. Tired of their husbands and their unsatisfying lives, they form the…
A satirical tale of marital revenge.
How to be a reader - how to be a writer. All you need to know.
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Sappho was so happy when she married Gavin. She was in love and it seemed that at last everything was falling into place. But she hadn’t considered his daughter, Isobel…
The bestselling classic tale of a woman scorned, from a much-loved British author.
An astonishing novel that probes into the strange world of genetic engineering.
A collection of stories that expose women’s clumsy, often doomed, attempts to negotiate a smooth path through life.
A delicious treat of wisdom for better self-awareness and satisfaction. Tackle anxiety, envy, guilt, while giving in to sex, food, friends, family, shopping - and chocolate.
A distillation of our times. Eleven short stories from this contemporary writer.
A novel of urban deceit and rural passion, of doctors, witches, birth and death.
A brilliant, inventive and endlessly delightful new memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where her acclaimed Auto da…
A book of wise, witty advice for budding writers from literary lioness and creative writing tutor, Fay Weldon.
