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»En bok som fullkomligt vibrerar av energi. Ett litet, galet mästerverk.« Washington Post Ruth Patchett har aldrig betraktat sig själv som djävulsk, snarare motsatsen. Hon är en lång, inte särskilt attraktiv kvinna, som lever ett stillsamt liv med...

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»En bok som fullkomligt vibrerar av energi. Ett litet, galet mästerverk.« Washington Post Ruth Patchett har aldrig betraktat sig själv som djävulsk, snarare motsatsen. Hon är en lång, inte särskilt attraktiv kvinna, som lever ett stillsamt liv med...

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Illuminations from the dark side. Mothers and children, lovers and wives, carers and betrayers. Some characters struggle, some dance or fly, some try suicide or murder. They may resort to reason and unreason. All of them make choices. Deft, spare ...

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A provocative view of modern society weaved into a tale of explosive love and, perhaps, even, black magic. Scandalous Eleanor Darcy, wild young wife of a world-famous economist, sketches her vision of Utopia to two journalists, Hugo Vansitart and ...

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An astonishing novel that probes into the strange world of genetic engineering. Joanna May thought herself unique, indivisible until one day, to her hideous shock, she discovered herself to be five: though childless she was a mother; though an onl...

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A brilliant and caustic cautionary tale from one of Britains best-loved and most controversial writers. Hattie and Martyn are a decent, hard-working, ecologically-minded young couple partners with a new baby, bickering over whether they should get...

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A spiky, feisty, hilarious collection of stories that expose womens clumsy, often doomed, attempts to negotiate a smooth path through life. Abandoned wives remain as lingering presences in the homes of their ex-husbands new girlfriends; beautiful ...

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A delicious treat of wisdom for better self-awareness and satisfaction. Tackle anxiety, envy, guilt, while giving in to sex, food, friends, family, shopping and chocolate. What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so st...

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A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer. Watching Me, Watching You was Fay Weldons first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter,...

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A novel of urban deceit and rural passion, of doctors, witches, birth and death. Many people dream of country cottages. Liffey dreamed for many years, and saw her dream come true one hot Sunday afternoon, in Somerset, in September A trap closed ar...

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A chilling tale that interweaves the post-Watergate world of American politics and the way in which our past indiscretions inevitably catch up with us. Isabel Acres journey through life has taken her from the Australian outback via the beds and al...

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A savagely satirical tale of marital revenge. Madeleine wants revenge; Madeleine wants to be remembered: Madeleine wants love. Who doesnt? Madeleine is ex-wife and chief persecutor of Jarvis, the architect. Why not? She hates him. Hilary is their ...

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The one and only Fay Weldon tells the story of her turbulent and controversial life. From the 1930s to the 2000s, Fay Weldon has seen and lived our times. As a child in New Zealand, young and poor in London, unmarried mother, wife, lover, playwrig...

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A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittering world of charity auctions, big business, high art, and more than enough money to spare. Take one wealthy businessman fresh from his second marriage to an avid, successful yo...

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A brilliant, inventive and endlessly delightful new memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where her acclaimed Auto da Fay left off. Fay Weldon, one of our cleverest and best-...

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When a marriage meets a therapist Annette and Spicer make a perfect pair: he thirty-nine, wide-shouldered, square-jawed, and often likened to Harrison Ford; she slight, fair, delicately featured, and sometimes likened to Meryl Streep. He with a so...

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Fay Weldons first novel, a sharp and witty parable of the way people see themselves. For several weeks, Esther Sussman had lived in a sordid flat in Earls Court. During the day she read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched televisio...

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A selection of lectures and essays contributed to newspapers, magazines and books over recent years, revised for this volume and all highly relevant to today. In these essays find a portrait of the times, to help us map our way through the new Gar...

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A turbine-driven fantasy of love and revenge, values and morals: a witty and compellng elixir. Bernard Bellamy has done a deal. He's sold out to the Devil, in all his forms. In return, he is promised that all his wishes will be granted, all his de...

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Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy Spectator Here are nineteen glittery new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents. Or alone. St...

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An adventure story where love triumphs over lust, good will over satanic forces in the spirit of Dickens. An adventure story in which, you will be glad to hear, love finally triumphs over lust, good will over satanic forces, and sheer kindness ove...

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This copulative sotry of passion, jealousy, fidelity and faithlessness is Weldon at her most provocative. Into the lives of Marion, Nora, Roaslie and Susan erupts Leslie Beck, an old flame not quite extinguished. Recently widowed, though somewhat ...

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Weldon on top form; Weldon tackling love, sex, ageing, death; Weldon at her wittiest best; Weldon unparalleled. Sophia is a thirty-four-year-old film editor living in Soho. Her only living relation (she thinks), her grandmother Felicity, is an eig...

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A marriage its breakdown and a perforated heroine: one woman, many faces, many personalities and more emerging .....Witty, sexy and funny, Fay Weldon uses a sharp but healing laser to re-lay out notions of love, marriage and the self. A marriage, ...

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Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia. Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deception rules; where a bully can believe he's a victim; a blackmailer see herself as a healer; and an artist's slave be ...

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A classic tale of how a perfectly knitted life can unravel in the space of days. Alexandra Ludd is an actress, playing Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House. In the eyes of the world she has everything a woman could want: husband, home, child, income; go...

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The one and only Fay Weldon tells the story of her turbulent and controversial life.From the 1930s to the 2000s, Fay Weldon has seen and lived our times. As a child in New Zealand, young and poor in London, unmarried mother, wife, lover, playwrigh...

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With her inimitable wit and insight, Fay Weldon offers her wisdom on the subject of female happiness and how to achieve it.What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.In this book, Fay Weldon offers wisdo...

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A novel of urban deceit and rural passion, of doctors, witches, birth and death.'Many people dream of country cottages. Liffey dreamed for many years, and saw her dream come true one hot Sunday afternoon, in Somerset, in September... A trap closed...

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A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittery world of charity auctions, big business, high art, and more than enough money to spare.Take one wealthy businessman fresh on his second marriage to an avid, successful young w...

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