The Life and Loves of a She Devil

A tour de force: a macabre, fast-moving moral fable * The Times * More audacious and striking in design than anything that has gone before . . . carried out with such dash and glitter * Times Literary Supplement * Rousing . . . stimulating . . . the fun grows steadily blacker and wilder * Guardian * A savage, sadistic even, but beautifully and compellingly written satire * Sunday Express * Intoxicating * Daily Telegraph * A novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage like love turned to hate, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned * New York Magazine * Devilishly delightful . . . It affords a scintillating, mindboggling, vicarious thrill for any reader who has ever fantasised dishing out retribution for one wrong or another * New York Times Book Review * What makes this a powerfully funny and oddly powerful book is the energy of the language and of the intellect that conceived it, an energy that vibrates off the pages and that makes She Devil as exceptional a book in the remembering as in the reading . . . . a small, mad masterpiece * Washington Post * Fantastic . . . a carefully worked-out fable, satiric and finally bitter . . . it's very funny * Chicago Tribune *

Fay Weldon was a well known novelist, playwright, critic and scriptwriter. Her first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke, was published in 1967 and she published 38 more novels after that, including the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, which has been adapted for screen, television and radio. She also wrote seven collections of short stories and several works of non-fiction, including her autobiography Auto Da Fay. Awarded a CBE in 2001, she was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in 2012. For more information about Fay and her work, visit her website: www.fayweldon.co.uk.