Fay Weldon

Down Among the Women (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A classic from beloved national treasure Fay Weldon sees four women break the shackles of patriarchy and domesticity in 1950s London, from the author of The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil

"Down among the women. What a place to be!"

So begins Fay Weldon's novel, opening onto 1950s London, where Wanda, a former radical who has left her husband, has raised her daughter Scarlet to be as independent as she is. But twenty-year-old Scarlet has already had one abortion, and is about to become a single mother. There's also Scarlet'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's never too late to become the women they are meant to be.

Praise for Fay Weldon:
'A national treasure' Literary Review
'Wickedly stylish. Bursting with intelligence and fire' Daily Telegraph
'Prolific and provocative, Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists' Time Out
'A queen of words' Caitlin Moran

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405982658
• Artikelnr.: 73284386

Autorenporträt

Born in Birmingham but brought up in New Zealand, Fay returned to the UK aged 15 just after the Second World War. After studying at St Andrews, she moved to London in the early 1950s, working for the Foreign Office and then in advertising. She began writing for radio and television in 1963 when she fell pregnant with her first child, producing plays for ITV and the BBC and writing three episodes of Upstairs Downstairs, including the first in 1971. In the end, she wrote over 70 scripts for television, including an adaptation of Pride & Prejudice in 1980. Her first novel was published in 1967 and was followed by over 30 others, including The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil which became a beloved BBC series. Fay died in Northampton, England on 4 January 2023, at the age of 91.

Rezensionen

'Fay Weldon is a national treasure.' Literary Review