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By Weldon, Fay
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The last instalment in Dilberne sequence: following one family through the twentieth century.
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A memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where Auto da Fay left off.
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By Weldon, Fay
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This collection of 11 short stories vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony and courage. In Alopecia , a lost sense of sisterhood brings tragedy. In Threnody , a women's commune is gently mocke...d. Read more
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By Weldon, Fay
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A collection of stories that expose women's clumsy, often doomed, attempts to negotiate a smooth path through life. Bold, glamorous, sexy, unrepentant, Fay Weldon's heroines offer a quite unique view of the world as they face their trials without fear or trepidation.
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Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new beginning to their lives. The Ladies lounge around in the Jacuzzi, drinking champagne and... eating chocolate telling each other the stories of their lives. Read more
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Alice is an 18-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own niece, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only i...s her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself. Read more
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Madeleine wants revenge. She is the ex-wife and chief persecutor to Jarvis, an architect. For Jarvis has a new life with a new wife and a new baby. Jarvis is content, or thinks he is. Until Madeleine uncovers new familial links in the disruption she creates.
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Praxis Duveen is a survivor. At five years old, in 1920s England, she is still innocent, the product of an unstable mother and a flighty father who abandoned Praxis and her half-crazy sister, Hypatia. As the decades fly by, Praxis experiences many incarnations, from prostitute to... rape victim, wife to adulteress and eventually becomes the accidental leader of an international women's movement. Now, from her dingy basement apartment, where she's attempting to write a memoir, Praxis tells about the story of her remarkable journey - peppered with more than a few detours along the way ... Read more
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A classic tale of how a perfectly knitted life can unravel in the space of days. Alexandra Ludd is an actress playing Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House. In the eyes of the world she has everything a woman could want: husband, home, child, income, good looks, good friends, the plaudi...ts of the crowd and the affection of neighbours. But Alexandra inspires envy as well as love: she was unwise to forget it, she was complacent, perhaps a little vain - and all fate has to do to bring her down is to snip a single strand ... Worst Fears is the story of how bereavement can turn love hollow and truth can destroy a past. It is a headlong, headstrong tale of anger and forgiveness, of worst fears realised but, in the end, best wishes granted. Read more
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Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact - simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with... the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy that she becomes truly diabolic. Within weeks she has burnt down the family home, collected the insurance, made love to the local drunk and embarked on a course of destruction and revenge. A blackly comic satire of the war of the sexes, The Life and Loves of a She Devil is the fantasy of the wronged woman made real. Read more
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