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After the Peace by Fay Weldon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Spoils of War Ser.
How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbour and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous as it turned out. For donor no. 116349, '6 ...Show more
Before the War by Fay Weldon
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Spoils of War Ser.
London, 1922.It's a cold November morning, the station is windswept and rural, the sky is threatening snow, and the train is late.Vivien Ripple, 20 years old and an ungainly five foot eleven, waits on the platform at Dilberne Halt. She is wealthy and well-bred--only daughter to the founder of Ripple &am ...Show more
Before the War by Fay Weldon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Spoils of War
Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty-four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse in those times - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to ...Show more
Death of a She Devil by Fay Weldon
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Category: Fiction
In Fay Weldon's 1983 classic, The Life and Loves of a She Devil, women fought men for power and won. In 2017, men take the ultimate step to get their power back... Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is now eighty-four and keen to retire. But who can take up her mantle? Enter Ruth's grandson Tyler, a ...Show more
Death of a She Devil by Fay Weldon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Everyone's talking about feminism and gender. But to make up your own mind, you need to discover the She Devil for yourself. In 1983, Fay Weldon published her most famous book, The Life and Loves of a She Devil. Written in the teeth of the feminist revolution, it is a wickedly funny revenge fantasy abou ...Show more
Down Among the Women by Fay Weldon
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Down among the women. What a place to be! In the Fifties, women were looked after by nice, breadwinning men: or so went the myth. Eighteen-year-old unmarried mother Scarlet, a lost child recovering from her first abortion, looks at the world with her friends and begins to see the truth. An icily funny a ...Show more
Female Friends by Fay Weldon
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
They first met as children in 1940s London. Thirty years later, Marjorie, Chloe, and Grace make their way through an almost unrecognizable post-war society, coping with husbands, children, parents, and the messy business of life. Now in her ninth decade, Fay Weldon is one of the foremost chroniclers of ...Show more
Habits of the House by Fay Weldon
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Category: Fiction | Series: Love and Inheritance
Fay Weldon's new novel takes us inside the lives of an aristocratic household in the last three months of the nineteenth century. It's a time of riot and confusion, social upheaval, war abroad and shortage of money. Tea gowns are still laced with diamonds; there are still nine courses at dinner, but ban ...Show more
Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen by WELDON, Fay
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Alice is an eighteen-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 neice, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her corresponden ...Show more
Long Live the King by Fay Weldon
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Category: Fiction | Series: Love and Inheritance
1902: London Society is in a frenzy of anticipation for the coronation of the new king, Edward VII. The Earl and Countess of Dilberne are caught up in the lavish preparations, yet Lady Isobel still has ample time to fret. Her sixteen-year-old niece, Adela, tragically orphaned, has run off with a troupe ...Show more
Mischief by Fay Weldon
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Category: Fiction
One of Britian's best loved writers chooses her best short stories from her career at the forefront of contemporary fiction. 'She's a Queen of Words' CAITLIN MORAN. 'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature' HARPER'S BAZAAR. 'Readable, articulate and fascinating' THE SCOTSMAN. 'Outrageous ...Show more
Mischief: Fay Weldon Selects Her Best Short Stories by Fay Weldon
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Category: Fiction
'She's a Queen of Words' CAITLIN MORAN. 'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature' HARPER'S BAZAAR. 'Readable, articulate and fascinating' THE SCOTSMAN. 'Outrageously funny' DAILY EXPRESS. 'Sharp, witty, incisive' THE TIMES. 'Wise, knowing, forthright' INDEPENDENT. Reviewers have been des ...Show more