<div>&ldquo;As a study of fiction, femininity and family it is bursting with intelligence and fire&rdquo;&mdash;from the award-winning author of Death of a She Devil (The Telegraph). Your writer, in conjuring this tale of murder, adultery, incest, ghosts, redemption, and remorse, takes you first to a daffodil-filled garden in Highgate, North London, where, just outside the kitchen window, something startling shimmers on the very edges of perception. Fluttering and chattering, these are our kehua&mdash;a whole multiplying flock of Maori spirits (all will be explained) goaded into wakefulness by the conversation within. Scarlet&mdash;a long-legged, skinny young woman of the new world order&mdash;has announced to Beverley, her aged grandmother, that she intends to leave home and husband for the glamorous actor, Jackson Wright, he of the vampire films. Beverley may be well on her way to her ninth decade, but she&rsquo;s not beyond using this intelligence to stir up a little trouble. How the kehua became attached to a three-year-old white girl is the origin of your writer&rsquo;s tale. Suffice to say that murder is at the root of it all, that Beverley and her female bloodline carry a weighty spiritual burden and that this is the story of how they learn to live with their ghosts, or maybe how their ghosts learn to live with them. &ldquo;A haunting book . . . The novel is a spirited triumph: adroit, affecting and bung-full of genuine humour and ideas.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Weldon crafts this traffic between spirit worlds with characteristic wit, and without sacrificing the intricacies of a family&rsquo;s struggle to accept its past.&rdquo; &mdash;Financial Times &ldquo;Wonderfully wicked, highly readable.&rdquo; &mdash;Independent</div>

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Kehua!

<div>&ldquo;Wickedly funny satire of modern love, work, and parenthood . . . deft plot twists and a final delicious surprise&rdquo;&mdash;from the New York Times Notable author (People). Fay Weldon lets her incisive wit loose on a hot issue facing many modern families&mdash;child care, and what can happen when that involves having a nanny under your roof. Hattie and Martyn are the proud parents of newborn Kitty; both are in their early thirties, smart, handsome, and, for reasons of liberal principle, not married but partnered. All seems fine at first&mdash;healthy baby, happy couple&mdash;but when they have to decide who&rsquo;ll look after little Kitty, things get complicated. Hattie&rsquo;s dying to get back to work but Martyn fears employing foreign help might hurt his leftist political aspirations. Martyn capitulates when Agnieska arrives&mdash;a Polish nanny who happens to be both domestic goddess and first-rate belly dancer, the maker of a mean cup of cocoa who&rsquo;s also educated in early childhood development. Having her in the house makes life livable again for the young couple, so when problems arise with her immigration papers Martyn and Hattie will do anything to keep her in the country. But will their decision to have Martyn marry her be the trouble-free solution they envision? &ldquo;Long a chronicler of the war between the sexes, Weldon takes on motherhood and child rearing . . . [Her] trademark acid wit is very much in evidence here, especially on the final pages, which she embellishes with a delicious fillip.&rdquo; &mdash;Entertainment Weekly &ldquo;Dry, delicious . . . Weldon . . . is far from compassionate&mdash;acerbic would be the better word.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post</div>

She May Not Leave

<div>A New York Times Notable Book: The &ldquo;wise and haunting&rdquo; memoir from one of England&rsquo;s most witty and beloved writers is &ldquo;from first to last a wonder&rdquo; (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post). From life as a poor unwed mother in London to becoming one of England&rsquo;s bestselling authors, Fay Weldon has crammed more than most into her years. Wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, winer and diner&mdash;Fay leads us through her peripatetic life with barely a role she can&rsquo;t illuminate. Born Franklin Birkinshaw in 1931, Fay spent most of her youth in New Zealand. With her glamorous father, a philandering doctor, generally absent, Fay&rsquo;s intrepid mother and bohemian grandmother raised her along with her sister, Jane. Brought up among women, Fay found men a mystery until the swinging sixties in London where she became a central figure in the literary scene. She scraped along penning winning advertising slogans before she began to write fiction. As this memoir comes to a close, we witness the stirring of her first novel. Riddled with Weldon&rsquo;s fierce opinions, as well as her &ldquo;stinging wit, jaunty prose, memorable bon mots,&rdquo; this frank and absorbing memoir is vintage Fay. An icon to many, a thorn in the flesh to others, she has never failed to excite, madden, or interest. And now she has finally turned her authorial wit and keen eye on . . . herself (Publishers Weekly, starred review).</div>

Auto da Fay

<div>Ten women indulge themselves—and divulge their secrets—in this witty novel: “Immensely entertaining…The entire gamut of the female experience is covered.”—The Times (UK) In the lull between Christmas and New Year’s, ten high-achieving ladies are gathered at the expensive Castle Spa in Cumbria, England, seeking to rejuvenate themselves with Botox, aromatherapy, and all-around pampering. They lounge around in the Jacuzzi, sipping champagne and telling each other the stories of their lives—from a trophy wife’s spell in a Greek prison to a brain surgeon’s experience with twins and mistaken identity to a stepmother’s reverse-Cinderella story.  From a Booker Prize nominee whose work has been acclaimed for “extraordinary wit and insight” (The Baltimore Sun), The Spa is a darkly funny sketch of a group of women who, despite facing prejudice, imprisonment, domestic catastrophes, and romantic debacles, have risen to the top of their respective worlds. “Eminently readable.”—Financial Times</div>

The Spa

<div>“[A] hilarious page-turner…Weldon’s diabolically clever satire of greed, fashion, sex, and age is smart entertainment of the highest order.”—Booklist Grace has just been released from prison, where she was sent for trying to run over her ex-husband’s new wife with her Jaguar in a supermarket parking lot. It may make things a little awkward when all three of them attend a glittering charity ball in London together… From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, this “piquant social comedy” (New York Daily News) is a tale of passion, spite, romance, and revenge, set in the world of the rich, the stylish, the famous—and the infamous. “Playful, sharp, and funny.”—Los Angeles Times “Swift and amusing.”—The New York Times</div>

The Bulgari Connection

<div>A move into an old folks’ home marks a new stage of life for both grandmother and granddaughter in this “wry and witty” novel (Entertainment Weekly). On one side of the Atlantic, Sophia Moore, an emotionally guarded film editor—troubled by her mother's long-ago suicide and her father's abandonment—overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues an unfulfilling affair with the famous director of her latest movie. But when she travels to the other side of the Atlantic to help her octogenarian grandmother Felicity settle into a Rhode Island retirement community, she begins to unravel mysteries about her family history—including the fact that Felicity is not, as she’d thought, her only living relative. Meanwhile, Felicity learns to gamble, falls in love, and uncovers the truth about the residence’s evil nurse Dawn. A hilarious tale of secrets, schemes, and late-life love, Rhode Island Blues is Booker Prize nominee Fay Weldon at her witty best. “Smart and funny, Weldon's boldly plotted and finely crafted tale deftly satirizes our infinite capacity for self-delusion.”—Booklist “Loaded with lively, appealing characters and satisfying, unpredictable plot turns.”—Elle</div>

Rhode Island Blues

<div>The Booker Prize nominee’s quirky novel about a man and woman trading bodies, supplemented with her personal commentary: “Tremendously fun to read.”—Booklist Described as a “reality novel,” Mantrapped reveals, in alternating chapters, personal reflections and observations of the acclaimed author Fay Weldon and the fictional story of a broke, fortysomething woman who brushes past a handsome male newspaper editor—and in that moment, mysteriously switches souls with him. A follow-up to Weldon’s autobiographical Auto da Fay, this creative concoction reminds us why the author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and dozens of other works is so renowned for her “piercing, insightful, razor-like wit” (The Washington Post), especially when it comes to the battle of the sexes. “She’s just so good…Weldon’s extraordinary wit and insight ricochet through these pages.”—The Baltimore Sun “If you can just keep up with Weldon’s madcap journey, Mantrapped is more than worth the trip.”—O, the Oprah Magazine</div>

Mantrapped

<div>A weekend in the country erupts into a free-for-all of mutiny, sex, and murder On the anniversary of the Eve of the Battle of Waterloo, an assortment of unusual dinner guests gather at a remote country house to pay homage to Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the exploding cannonball. But all is not peaceful at the Shrapnel Academy: The downstairs servants, a group of third-world refugees led by a South African butler, are plotting to overthrow their upstairs oppressors. When a blizzard hits the countryside and traps everyone indoors, the rebellion erupts into bloody warfare throughout the Academy, &ldquo;a shrine to the ethos of military excellence.&rdquo; With characters that include a domineering female sergeant, a war-mongering general, a brain-damaged spy, and an idiot-savant arms dealer, Fay Weldon gives us a country house novel replete with sexual atrocity and class warfare. No one will emerge unscathed in this stinging tale of modern-day barbarians, where the deadliest weapons are the ever-raging battles between the haves and the have-nots.</div>

Overdrive

The Shrapnel Academy

<div>Fay Weldon delivers a brilliant novel that lays bare the secret hearts of women and men When Joanna May&rsquo;s husband, nuclear entrepreneur Carl, discovered that she was having an affair, he filed for divorced and had her lover killed. Now, sixty-year-old Joanna has no children and lives with her decades-younger gardener, a wannabe rock star. Carl, who also lives with a much younger partner, has never quite recovered from the affair&mdash;and Joanna is about to discover just how tightly he&rsquo;s held on. Thirty years ago, when Joanna thought she was having an abortion, Carl and her gynecologist conducted a terrifying experiment. The result? Jane, Gina, Julie, and Alice; one person replicated four times. And all of them, Joanna included, are suffering at the hands of the men in their lives. The Cloning of Joanna May is a spellbinding novel about the elusive nature of identity, the consequences of playing God, and the ongoing struggle for power between women and men.</div>

The Cloning of Joanna May

<div>First-wave feminism takes front and center in this fearless novel, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, about women determined to succeed in a man&rsquo;s world&mdash;only to be foiled by their own ambition &ldquo;A Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s the 1970s, and the sexual revolution is just beginning. Four women have decided to open a feminist publishing house. Named in honor of the gorgon who turned men&rsquo;s hearts to stone, MedusaPublishing gives the so-called Four Furies a platform for speaking out against female oppression. Layla is a wealthy, fundamental radical, intolerant of anyone whose ideals deviate, even slightly, from her own&mdash;that is, until she finds herself seduced by a married man; tiny Alice is &ldquo;all mind and very little matter,&rdquo; until she discovers the dangerous New Age practice of goddess worship; Stephanie leaves her unfaithful husband in pursuit of sexual fulfillment with other men&mdash;and women; and Nancy, tired of washing her fianc&eacute;&rsquo;s socks, discovers she has a remarkable mind for business. Big Girls Don&rsquo;t Cry is the story of four women who are determined to change the world, and who, over the course of two-and-a-half decades, ultimately transform themselves.</div>

Big Girls Don't Cry

<div>A husband&rsquo;s sudden death reveals some unpleasant truths: &ldquo;Fast-paced black comedy . . . compulsively readable.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly When Worst Fears opens, Alexandra Ludd has been a widow for less than seventy hours, her husband, Ned, former theater critic and stay-at-home father to their young son, Sascha, having died of an apparent heart attack. Alexandra, beautiful, adored darling of the London stage, is too overcome with grief to realize she&rsquo;s been lied to: Ned didn&rsquo;t keel over in the dining room, as her good friends told her. He died in their marital bed&mdash;and he wasn&rsquo;t alone. At first Alexandra&rsquo;s in denial, but when Ned&rsquo;s mistress starts stalking her, she must face the truth: The man she loved was unfaithful. To add insult to injury, it seems everyone knew about Ned and dumpy, middle-aged, married Jenny Linden. A scathing expos&eacute; of infidelity, Worst Fears is Fay Weldon at her most fiendishly funny and cutting.</div>

Worst Fears

<div>Bestselling author Fay Weldon delivers a scathing satire about society&rsquo;s obsession with female weight and beauty in the 1960s, as relevant today as when it was first published After a lifetime of gorging herself, Esther Wells has an epiphany: She and her husband, Alan, are going on a diet. Dedicated foodies throughout their marriage, they are about to discover what happens when new passions supplant old. Deprived of the meals he loves, Alan, an advertising man by trade and a novelist by avocation, promptly begins an affair with his secretary, Susan. But his fantasies are all about food. With her marriage to Alan in jeopardy, Esther moves out and commits a betrayal of her own. Narrated by Esther through a series of flashbacks, The Fat Woman&rsquo;s Joke is a novel about sex, food, marriage, and the indignities of the 1960s. Infused with Fay Weldon&rsquo;s trenchant wit and illuminating observations, it&rsquo;s a satisfying, deeply felt tale of one woman&rsquo;s revenge upon the world that has oppressed her. </div>

The Fat Woman's Joke

<div>Madeleine wants to love, be remembered&mdash;and take revenge Abandoned by her husband, Jarvis, for a new wife and child, Madeleine is left alone with her troubled adolescent daughter, Hilary. By day, Madeleine tends (or doesn&rsquo;t tend) to Hilary, who is growing more difficult by the hour. By night, she entertains dark fantasies about Jarvis&rsquo;s second wife&mdash;Lily the Supplanter. And what of Margot, the doctor&rsquo;s wife, who had a one-night stand with Jarvis many moons ago? All are ripe for their comeuppance as Madeleine, with malice aforethought, orchestrates her revenge. In Remember Me, Fay Weldon plumbs the depths of a fury that nothing, not even death, can stop. Compulsively readable, this is a novel that will be remembered for its wit, originality, and persistent humanity.</div>

Remember Me

<div>An aunt imparts wisdom to her teenage niece, inspired by the works of Jane Austen, in this novel from the Man Booker Prize&ndash;nominated author. Alice is an aspiring novelist with green hair and zero interest in reading Jane Austen for her college English class. However, her Aunt Fay, a novelist herself, isn&rsquo;t about to let Alice stick her nose up at Austen or other enduring authors. &ldquo;You find her boring, petty and irrelevant, and, that as the world is in crisis, and the future catastrophic, you cannot imagine what purpose there can be in reading her,&rdquo; Fay writes her. &ldquo;My dear pretty little Alice, now with black and green hair . . . How can I hope to explain Literature to you, with its capital &lsquo;L&rsquo;?&rdquo; Alternating between passages from Jane Austen&rsquo;s novels and accounts of her own career, Aunt Fay pays tribute to a great author, explores the craft of fiction, and charts her niece&rsquo;s development as a writer in this unique book that reveals how Austen&mdash;and great literature&mdash;is truly, wonderfully timeless. </div>

Letters to Alice

<div>Fay Weldon tells the story of a common-law marriage in crisis while skewering two other institutions of reverence and repression: psychiatry and the British middle class After ten years of living with Spicer, Annette is finally pregnant; her first book is about to be published; and her common-law marriage is unraveling&mdash;or, rather, it starts to after Spicer goes into psychotherapy. Suddenly, Spicer is taking up astrology, finding constant fault with Annette, and making cruel sexual demands. To humor him, Annette seeks psychiatric help as well&mdash;until her therapist makes her life a living hell. As battle rages between them, Annette learns a lot about herself and the man she thought she knew. Trouble is a piercing novel that perforates Jungian therapy and the mind games played in the name of science, while capturing the painful disintegration of a relationship.</div>

Trouble

<div>Fay Weldon mines the fields of sexuality, procreation, and astronomy in her liberating novel about the ongoing quest for self-fulfillment Sandra Harris&mdash;wife, astronomer (known for discovering the planet Athena), television phenomenon, and &ldquo;professional searcher after truth&rdquo;&mdash;has had an epiphany. She leaves her boring attorney husband and runs off with Mad Jack Stubbs, her trumpet-playing lover, and his groupie entourage, for a tour of Southern France. Pursued by her husband, Mad Jack&rsquo;s wife, and the paparazzi, Sandra lives entirely for the moment&mdash;and great sex. In between, she ponders her past (institutionalized mother, Nazi war criminal father) while trying to ignore the deafening tick of her biological clock. Fay Weldon&rsquo;s novel is a mirror held up to the face of its reader; an illuminating, reflective tale about sex, ambition, and the love that makes fools of us all.</div>

Leader of the Band

<div>The basis for the movie She-Devil starring Meryl Streep: &ldquo;A novel of blazingly hot revenge . . . Heaven [has] no rage like love turned to hate&rdquo; (New York Magazine). Ruth loves her husband, Bobbo, a handsome, successful accountant. But Bobbo has fallen in love with Mary Fisher, a bestselling romance novelist who lives in a high tower overlooking the sea, pampered by her young, virile manservant. Mary is petite, dainty, and lovely. He tells Ruth about his affair and when Ruth reacts badly, he promptly moves out. In turn, Ruth decides to orchestrate a fiendish and masterful revenge. The Life and Loves of a She Devil is a masterpiece about love, hate, infidelity, corrosive envy, and the best kind of revenge.</div>

The Life and Loves of a She Devil

<div>From beyond the grave, a woman recounts the story of her life in this captivating novella by bestselling author Fay Weldon From her lofty perch in heaven amid the GSWITS (Great Screen Writers in the Sky), Gabriella Sumpter prepares to tell the story of her life. Because, as she claims, there are no rules for fiction writing, she will begin with her death and conclude with her birth. Just three months dead, and buried in a custom-made white silk shift, Gabriella is proud of her liberated, unashamedly erotic past. She has few regrets as she talks about the men she has loved and lost, including her married lover, Timothy, and scorned Walter, who burned down her house in a jealous rage. She shares the intimate details of her earthly existence, the emotions she experienced at the moment of death, and the old friends she has since encountered in heaven. Set in the near future, The Rules of Life is a startlingly vivid novel from a captivating female voice.</div>

The Rules of Life

<div>A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Wicked Women brings together twenty tales that lay bare the minds and hearts of men, women, and children Victims, liberators, blackmailers, healers, and ghosts&mdash;they&rsquo;re just a few of the fascinating men and women you&rsquo;ll meet in this stellar, boundary-defying anthology. From a heartless lover to a therapist who&rsquo;s exposed for being a child hater, Weldon&rsquo;s characters search for meaning, betray their vows, take pleasure in others&rsquo; misfortunes, or get pushed out of the family manse by their grasping offspring. Whether she&rsquo;s depicting a child&rsquo;s reaction to the chaotic lives of her parents, or envisioning a terrifying futuristic society, Fay Weldon wields her prolific pen like a sword. In a pre-apocalyptic world where nothing is sacred, Wicked Women reveals the infinite ability of men and women to wound, to grieve, and to love.</div>

Wicked Women

<div>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this modern masterpiece by Fay Weldon asks, What do women really want? 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&rsquo;s movement. Now, from her dingy basement apartment, where she&rsquo;s attempting to write a memoir, Praxis tells about the story of her remarkable journey&mdash;peppered with more than a few detours along the way. Spanning forty years, Praxis is by turns shocking, savage, strange, and exhilarating. </div>

Praxis

<div>Fay Weldon journeys to the wilds of Scotland and far-off Tasmania in these twelve tales of sexual politics and marital and political warfare In &ldquo;Christmas Lists&mdash;A Seasonal Story,&rdquo; the endless lists created by a suburban couple become a metaphor for marriage, family, and enduring love. In &ldquo;Delights of France or Horrors of the Road,&rdquo; a woman goes to a psychiatrist to cure her sudden, inexplicable paralysis, unaware that her constant bragging about her brilliant physicist husband conceals a raging fury. &ldquo;Redundant! or the Wife&rsquo;s Revenge&rdquo; takes place in a plastic surgery ward, where Fay Weldon finds an ironic humor. The title story introduces newlyweds Meg and Timmy, whose union is tested when Timmy is called away to naval duty and Meg discovers a shocking secret. By turns funny, tragic, macabre, and bittersweet, Polaris is a collection of masterworks by one of our most incisive authors.</div>

Polaris

<div>Satan tempts mortal man and woman in Fay Weldon&rsquo;s witty and wildly inventive riff on Doctor Faustus Selling one&rsquo;s soul to the devil takes on new meaning in this fiendishly clever page-turner by Fay Weldon. Once upon a time, in the dullest town imaginable, there lived three girls: Laura, the pretty one; Annie, the one desperate to escape; and Carmen, the one who catches the devil&rsquo;s eye. She&rsquo;s sixteen when Bernard Bellamy spies her from the back seat of his big, black BMW. He&rsquo;s just made a bargain with Mephistopheles himself: his mortal soul in exchange for the fulfillment of his desires. And he wants Carmen to be his wife. As time passes, inexplicable things happen to Carmen, Laura, and Annie. But Carmen is determined to hang on to her soul, no matter what obstacles&mdash;and temptations&mdash;are erected in her path. Will she succumb? Only the devil knows . . .</div>

Growing Rich

<div>From the internationally bestselling author of The Hearts and Lives of Men and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil comes a novel that asks a provocative question: If you ruled the world, what would you do? Eleanor Darcy has come up in the world. With her second husband in prison for financial crimes against the nation, she is a media sensation. A self-professed &ldquo;feminist of the socialist variety,&rdquo; Eleanor grants an exclusive interview to Hugh Vansitart and Valerie Jones, a pair of ambitious journalists. Her vision of the future includes the abolition of money and society-approved procreation, a world in which &ldquo;all men will believe in God and be capable of love.&rdquo; During the course of their interviews, Hugh and Valerie succumb to some erotic impulses of their own, while Eleanor goes on to become patron saint of the Darcian Movement. From the storyteller who is constantly measuring the moral pulse of men and women, Darcy&rsquo;s Utopia is an uproarious and subversive riff on the age-old battle of the sexes. </div>

Darcy's Utopia

<div>It&rsquo;s 1960s London, and the sexual revolution is in full swing in Fay Weldon&rsquo;s enduring story of lust, marriage, family, art, avarice, ambition, betrayal, and true love Clifford Wexford and Helen Lally meet at a party and fall passionately in love. But their baby, Nell, isn&rsquo;t yet one when their marriage unravels. Divorce quickly follows on the heels of wedding bliss, and so begins a battle for Nell&rsquo;s care and affection. Helen remarries; Clifford has affairs&mdash;and something quite remarkable happens to little Nell. Fay Weldon has written a sparkling gem of a novel, in which good triumphs over malice, and love can still conquer all. Part allegory, part adventure story, The Hearts and Lives of Men reveals the souls of both men and women. </div>

The Hearts and Lives of Men

<div>A vibrant collection of stories about women making life-altering decisions, by the bestselling author of The Life and Loves of a She Devil In this superlative anthology, Fay Weldon introduces readers to a cast of mothers, children, wives, and lovers&mdash;all of them unforgettable, timeless female characters. In &ldquo;Subject to Diary,&rdquo; a successful forty-ish career woman sits in an abortion clinic pondering motherhood. In &ldquo;The Year of the Green Pudding,&rdquo; a woman who seems to doom everyone and everything she touches vows never to fall in love again. And an analyst&rsquo;s office is the setting for a series of stories that feature four female patients&mdash;including a murderer&mdash;who lay bare their souls. Featuring locales that range from Sarajevo to Copenhagen to a hospital for the criminally insane, Moon Over Minneapolis is a major collection from an author whose sardonic wit and razor-edge humor reveal her own humanity and hope for the human race.</div>

Moon Over Minneapolis

<div>A weekend in the country goes awry in Fay Weldon&rsquo;s wickedly entertaining novel of lust, avarice, and murder Nineteen-year-old Elsa is poor in material goods, but rich in looks. Her employer and lover, forty-four-year-old Victor, used to be a tax accountant. Now he&rsquo;s an antique dealer who gave up his family for Elsa, and together they live in a room behind his shop. For her birthday, Victor is treating Elsa to a weekend in the country, courtesy of his rich friends, Hamish and his wheelchair-bound wife, Gemma, who mistakes Elsa for Victor&rsquo;s daughter. Not the most propitious way to start the weekend. Things go from bad to worse when Gemma starts treating Elsa like a home wrecker and Victor proposes a partner swap. Elsa is about to discover the darker side of &ldquo;happily ever after&rdquo; in this story about love, life, and fairy tales that never come true.</div>

Words of Advice

<div>A young couple&rsquo;s dream of a rustic idyll turns into a battle between good and evil in Fay Weldon&rsquo;s novel about passion, deceit, and witchcraft Liffey longs to live in the country. Her dream comes true when she and her husband, Richard, rent the aptly named Honeycomb Cottage. Richard will commute from the city on weekends; Liffey will have a baby. It seems like an ideal arrangement. But being pregnant, living in the country, and waiting for a husband to come home is not easy. For one thing, there&rsquo;s really bad neighbor trouble, which Richard refuses to recognize. Liffey finds Tucker, the farmer, far too attentive, and suspects that she is the victim of witchcraft. Tucker&rsquo;s wife, Mabs, jealous and spiteful, is obsessed by the idea that she should be pregnant rather than Liffey. As new life swells inexorably inside her, Liffey realizes all are dancing to the baby&rsquo;s tune. This is a wise and moving story about love, lust, and the stubbornness of new life. Puffball is a potent brew from Fay Weldon&rsquo;s fertile imagination. </div>

Puffball

<div>Fay Weldon&rsquo;s first short-story collection features her trademark themes of feminism, sisterhood, and domestic livelihood, where the ties that bind can also draw blood Love, loss, and the ever-changing sexual battlefield are the themes of this early anthology by master storyteller Fay Weldon: In &ldquo;Christmas Tree,&rdquo; the adulterous playwright hero embarks on a quest for true love, perhaps the most self-deceiving state of all; &ldquo;Breakages&rdquo; explores the fragility of married life as a miserly vicar&rsquo;s infertile wife contemplates his much-darned socks amid ghostly visitations; the loss of hair and female friendship are brought to poignant life in &ldquo;Alopecia,&rdquo; while religion becomes an excuse for infidelity in &ldquo;Holy Stones&rdquo;; a holiday game of Monopoly reveals the widening holes in the fabric of a family in &ldquo;Man with No Eyes&rdquo;; and an old house and its inhabitants are haunted by doomed love in the title story. By turns humorous, ironic, and tragic, Watching Me, Watching You presents Fay Weldon at her most witty, original, and courageous.</div>

Watching Me, Watching You

<div>With her eye for the unending power plays between the genders, Fay Weldon chronicles two decades in the lives of three generations of women&mdash;and has a devilish good time doing it &ldquo;Down among the women. What a place to be!&rdquo; So begins Fay Weldon&rsquo;s novel, opening onto 1950s London, where Wanda, a former radical who has left her husband, has raised her daughter Scarlet to be as tough and independent as she is. But twenty-year-old Scarlet has already had one abortion, and is about to become a single mother to the child she&rsquo;ll call Byzantia. The novel also follows the lives of Scarlet&rsquo;s friends: Sylvia, a born victim; respectable Jocelyn, hopelessly trapped in her dull, bourgeois existence; Audrey, who finally breaks out of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant, and doomed. Over the course of twenty years, they will discover it&rsquo;s never too late to become the women they are meant to be.</div>

Down Among the Women

<div>From bestselling author Fay Weldon comes the story of three women&rsquo;s enduring friendship 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. Trapped by her dependency on her tormented screenwriter husband, Chloe finds a novel way of liberating herself from his sexual and domestic oppression. Marjorie, a childless BBC director, is overwhelmed with guilt upon seeing her mother, the woman who abandoned her thirty years earlier, dying in a hospital bed. And egocentric Grace, who lives with a much younger man, her husband having passed away, sacrifices the wellbeing of her son upon the altar of pleasure. A smart, prescient novel that speaks for a generation of women struggling to find their place in a male-dominated world, Female Friends is a masterwork from a storyteller at the top of her game. </div>

Female Friends

<div>Multiple personality disorder gets a modern makeover in Fay Weldon&rsquo;s wickedly subversive, hilarious send-up of English traditions and divorce Lady Angelica Rice used to be a teenage rock sensation called Kinky Virgin. She gave it up to marry fat, lazy, near-destitute Sir Edwin Rice&mdash;and that&rsquo;s when Angelica&rsquo;s &ldquo;splitting&rdquo; began: a chorus of four women in her head, each one demanding to be heard. Now, after eleven years&mdash;during which she spent all her money restoring Edwin&rsquo;s crumbling ancestral manse to its former glory&mdash;he&rsquo;s suing her for divorce. He accuses Angelica of making excessive sexual demands, refusing to bear children, taking drugs, and failing to provide proper food for his guests&mdash;all of which are lies. But what&rsquo;s worse is that she still loves him. Egged on by her avenging alter egos&mdash;meek Jelly, shattered Lady Rice, sexually insatiable Angel, and practical Angelica&mdash;she gets her revenge in this seminal novel about marriage, divorce, and one woman&rsquo;s liberating leap into free fall. </div>

Splitting

<div>Suburban complacency and marital infidelity get their comeuppance in this black comedy by Fay Weldon When Natalie&rsquo;s husband, Harry, kisses her and their two children goodbye, departs for the office, and never returns, Natalie immediately blames herself. If she hadn&rsquo;t been cheating on her husband every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, he never would have left her for his secretary, a local beauty queen. Left penniless, without a husband, and eventually without a home, Natalie finds herself navigating the heartless, winding pathways of the state welfare system. There, she meets Sonia, who offers to shelter Natalie and her children. But Sonia has her own agenda, and her monstrous scheme culminates at the town&rsquo;s annual carnival, where she will take revenge on both men and women alike. Narrated from a mental institution by the seething Sonia, The Heart of the Country is a lusty, high-spirited, ultimately cautionary tale about the wages of sin and the pleasures of adultery, which always demand a price.</div>

The Heart of the Country

<div>Fay Weldon&rsquo;s gripping novel asks the questions, Can a politician&rsquo;s life ever be private? And, Can the past ever stay buried? Isabel has a secret: Seven years ago, she had an affair and ended up pregnant. A few months later, she married Homer Rust, who has no idea that Jason isn&rsquo;t his son. Now, Isabel&rsquo;s former lover, a US senator poised for the presidential nomination, is threatening her contented family life and her career as a journalist. Dandridge Ivel has never forgotten Isabel. But his aides are making it their business to make sure she&rsquo;s erased from his life. Isabel is a dangerous liability that could destroy Dandy&rsquo;s political career&mdash;especially when her son is becomes a pawn in a murderous conspiracy. Part thriller, part love story, The President&rsquo;s Child exposes the secrets and lies at the heart of a marriage, the consequences of love, and how much a mother will sacrifice for her child.</div>

The President's Child

<div>With wicked wit and savage glee, British novelist Fay Weldon &ldquo;breaks taboos like tape at a marathon&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). Perhaps best known for her &ldquo;small, mad masterpiece,&rdquo; The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Man Booker Prize nominee Fay Weldon has been writing some of the boldest, funniest satirical novels for over half a century (The Washington Post Book World). In her mid-eighties, she&rsquo;s penned a scathing sequel, The Death of a She Devil, &ldquo;a brilliant black comedy&rdquo; (The Mail on Sunday). Weldon&rsquo;s take-no-prisoners milieu is often the war between the sexes; she &ldquo;[points] up the mad underside of our sexual politics with a venomous accuracy for which wit is far too mild a word&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). The Life and Loves of a She Devil A New York Times Notable Book &ldquo;With infectious, wicked glee,&rdquo; Weldon tells the story of Ruth, whose husband, Bobbo, has fallen in love with Mary Fisher, a bestselling romance novelist who lives in a high tower overlooking the sea (Chicago Tribune). Mary is petite, dainty, and lovely. Ruth is not. When Bobbo moves out, Ruth decides to orchestrate an elaborate and masterful revenge. Weldon&rsquo;s &ldquo;powerfully funny and oddly powerful&rdquo; novel was made into a film with Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr (The Washington Post Book World). &ldquo;A scintillating, mind-boggling, vicarious thrill for any reader who has ever fantasized dishing out retribution for one wrong or another.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review The Hearts and Lives of Men: In Weldon&rsquo;s &ldquo;imaginative work of Dickensian scope&rdquo; set in 1960s London, Clifford Wexford and Helen Lally meet at a party and fall passionately in love (Los Angeles Times). But their baby, Nell, isn&rsquo;t even a year old when their marriage unravels. Divorce quickly follows, and so begins a battle for Nell&rsquo;s care and affection. Helen remarries; Clifford has affairs&mdash;and something quite remarkable happens to little Nell, as an ill-conceived kidnapping plot sets her on a series of picaresque adventures in this modern-day fairy tale. &ldquo;Wry, gutsy and loaded with fun.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Praxis Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Praxis Duveen is a survivor. At five years old, in 1920s England, she is still innocent, the product of an unstable mother and a father who abandoned her and Hypatia, her half-crazy sister. 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&rsquo;s movement. Now, from her dingy basement apartment where she&rsquo;s attempting to write a memoir, Praxis recounts her remarkable journey&mdash;peppered with more than a few detours along the way. &ldquo;Weldon&rsquo;s most directly feminist novel . . . A narrative that convinces, horrifies, and entertains.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal</div>

The Collected Novels Volume One

<div>Three novels from the &ldquo;prolific and provocative&rdquo; British satirist: from the joy of inspiration to the shock of betrayal and the pleasure of vengeance (Time Out). Perhaps best known for her &ldquo;small, mad masterpiece,&rdquo; The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Man Booker Prize nominee Fay Weldon has been writing some of the boldest, funniest satirical novels for over half a century (The Washington Post Book World). In her mid-eighties, she&rsquo;s penned a scathing sequel, The Death of a She Devil, &ldquo;a brilliant black comedy&rdquo; (The Mail on Sunday). The three volumes collected here&mdash;from an epistolary novel inspired by Jane Austen to a widow&rsquo;s discovery of her husband&rsquo;s betrayal and a tale of abandonment that twists into comeuppance&mdash;all prove Weldon&rsquo;s wit and insights into the human condition to be as sharp as ever. Letters to Alice: With the dire warning, &ldquo;You must read, Alice, before it&rsquo;s too late,&rdquo; Aunt Fay implores her niece to immerse herself in the works of enduring authors. Taking its inspiration from Jane Austen&rsquo;s relationship with her niece, Weldon&rsquo;s epistolary novel explores the literary life, as lived by both Austen and eighteen-year-old Alice, as she struggles with her own writing, school, parents, romance, ambition, and spiky green hair. &ldquo;Wise, sharp, informative . . . shrewd and funny.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times Literary Supplement Worst Fears A New York Times Notable Book A darling of the London theater world, Alexandra Ludd is playing Nora in Ibsen&rsquo;s A Doll&rsquo;s House when her husband, Ned, former theater critic and stay-at-home father to their young son, Sascha, dies of an apparent heart attack. But when Alexandra returns to their country home, her grief begins to give way to suspicion. Ned didn&rsquo;t keel over in the dining room, as her good friends told her. He died in their bed&mdash;and he wasn&rsquo;t alone. What&rsquo;s a widow to do? &ldquo;This splendid and spiteful novel shows Fay Weldon to be in as fine form as ever.&rdquo; &mdash;The Philadelphia Inquirer The Heart of the Country: When her husband kisses her and their children goodbye, departs for the office, and never returns, Natalie blames herself. Perhaps if she hadn&rsquo;t been cheating on him every Tuesday and Thursday, he wouldn&rsquo;t have left her for his secretary, a local beauty queen. Penniless and soon homeless, Natalie finds herself navigating the heartless labyrinth of the state welfare system. There, she meets Sonia, who offers to shelter Natalie and her children. But Sonia has her own agenda (hint: she&rsquo;s narrating from a mental institution) that will culminate in a monstrous act of vengeance at the town&rsquo;s carnival. &ldquo;Galloping, good, mean fun.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Collected Novels Volume Two

<div>Four razor-sharp satires from a Man Booker Prize nominee who chronicles the battle of the sexes with &ldquo;infectious, wicked glee&rdquo; (Chicago Tribune). The beloved author of The Life and Loves of a She Devil sends up marriage, 1950s London, fad diets, celebrity feminists, and Doctor Faustus, proving once again that she is &ldquo;the social and sexual soothsayer of our literary times&rdquo; (Company). The Fat Woman&rsquo;s Joke: A novel about sex, food, marriage, and the indignities of the 1960s. After a lifetime of gorging herself, Esther Wells has an epiphany: She and her husband are going on a diet. Dedicated foodies throughout their marriage, they are about to discover what happens when new passions supplant old. &ldquo;[Weldon is] an insightful and persuasive social commentator with an exhilarating mind.&rdquo; &mdash;Susan Isaacs, author of Compromising Positions Down Among the Women: In 1950s London, Scarlet was raised by her mother&mdash;a former radical who left her husband to be fiercely independent. But at twenty, Scarlet has already had one abortion, and is about to become a single mother to the child she&rsquo;s naming Byzantia. Over the course of twenty years, Scarlet and her friends will discover it&rsquo;s never too late to become the women they are meant to be. &ldquo;[A] stinging, brilliant comic novel.&rdquo; &mdash;The Christian Science Monitor Growing Rich: Carmen is sixteen when Bernard Bellamy spies her from the back seat of his big, black BMW. He&rsquo;s just made a bargain with Mephistopheles: his mortal soul in exchange for the fulfillment of his desires. As time passes, inexplicable things happen to Carmen and her friends. But she&rsquo;s determined to hang on to her soul, no matter what obstacles&mdash;or temptations&mdash;are erected in her path. Will she succumb? Only the devil knows . . . &ldquo;Glorious entertainment.&rdquo; &mdash;Women&rsquo;s Journal Darcy&rsquo;s Utopia: With her husband in prison for financial crimes, Eleanor Darcy is a media sensation. A self-professed &ldquo;feminist of the socialist variety,&rdquo; she grants an interview to a pair of journalists. During the course of their conversations, two journalists find themselves on a life-changing journey as Eleanor spins her vision of a future where money is abolished and &ldquo;all men will believe in God and be capable of love.&rdquo; &ldquo;A dazzling tour de force from one of Britain&rsquo;s most inspiring and intelligent novelists.&rdquo; &mdash;Cosmopolitan </div>

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