Fay Weldon

A darkly humorous, macabre novel of a wronged wife winning her amazing revenge

The Life and Loves of a She Devil

The award-winning writer for Upstairs Downstairs presents a first entry in a new trilogy about the shared lives of masters and servants at the turn of the 20th century, tracing the family life of Cabinet hopeful Lord Robert, who hopes to alleviate financial woes by marrying his son to a disgraced Chicago heiress.

Habits of the House

When her niece complains that Jane Austen is tedious and has little relevance, the author offers a defence of literature and reading

Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

A novel of love, death and aristocracy in twenties London. Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty-four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - worse - intelligent. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can bribe a man to marry her. What nobody knows is that Vivien is pregnant, and will die in childbirth in just a few months...

Before the War

Humble and unassuming Ruth, long-suffering wife and mother is ditched by her husband and decides to get what she wants--power, money, sex, and revenge

Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-devil

Dramatizes the wasted lives of a tired radical woman, her uncaring daughter, and their friends who cannot endure life with or without men

Down Among the Women

A novel of urban deceit and rural passion, of doctors, witches, birth and death.

Puffball

Following the restoration of the Dilberne fortune and manor at the turn of the twentieth century, Lord Robert and Lady Isobel get caught up in coronation plans for Edward VII, anticipate the birth of a grandchild, and debate the future of an orphaned niece.

Long Live the King

The Fat Woman's Joke

Worst Fears (Weldon, Fay)

... and the Wife Ran Away

The author's twenty-first novel features a celebrated London actress who suffers nervous delusions when her husband dies under mysterious circumstances and her friends seem strangely eager to smooth out all the complications of the tragedy.

A Novel

Worst Fears

Praxis

Three people caught up in the special problems of womanhood seek to establish their own values

Female Friends

Clifford Wexford, a thirty-five-year-old art dealer, and Helen Lally, the twenty-two-year-old daughter of an artist, meet, fall in love, marry, produce Nell, and divorce

The Hearts and Lives of Men

A group of women negotiate around the births, deaths, dramas and disappointments that litter their lives, but slowly and surely they begin to discover their real selves

In a lively memoir, the author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil shares the story of her own life growing up among women in the 1950s, describing her childhood in New Zealand, her discovery of men during the swinging 1960s, her writing career, and her diverse roles as unmarried mother, wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, and more. Reprint.

Auto Da Fay

As the author of over 30 novels, stories and screenplays, Fay Weldon has a lifetime of wisdom to impart on the art of writing. In the course of 30 accessible essays, Weldon attempts to answer the title's question--why will no one publish your novel?--and steers the reader on the way to becoming a writer. Full of her trademark wit, this book will delight and amuse at the same time as offering up useful tips for all those who yearn to write.

Tips and Advice on How to Write

Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?

Joanna May, sixty, learns that her estranged husband, Carl, has created four, thirty-year-old clones of her

The Cloning of Joanna May

In Fay Weldon's 1983 classic, The Life and Loves of a She Devil, women fought men for power and won. But in 2018, the fight continues on a new front... Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is eighty-four and keen to retire. She has worked hard to make the world as she wants it: women triumphant, men submissive. Now she is tired. Her business is done. The mantle of power and influence is up for grabs. Who can take up the role? Valerie Valeria, hot-shot millennial and Ruth's PA, is ready and eager to inherit...

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