Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Set in a small Somerset town—Jane Austen country— Weldon’s novel is about a marriage gone awry.
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon is an irresistible blend of compassionate wisdom and deliciously nasty wit, and her consummate twenty-first novel is a tour de force. From its hilarious opening (“I’ve never seen a dead body.…Can I come too?”) to its satisfying final conflagration, it is a taut, scathing revelation of the nature of marital intimacy. Released from the safety of the conjugal hearth into the howling gales of widowhood, it’s hard to tell if Alexandra is losing her sanity or just her friends.
When Alexandra returns from her stint on the London stage as Ibsen’s sweet and timid Nora to find her husband mysteriously dead of a heart attack and her female friends ominously invested in smoothing out all the complications of the tragedy, she begins to be suspicious. At first attributes this to grief, and then to paranoia—perhaps she’s simply going crazy?—but the smug managerial tactics of solid Abbie, the fussy, invasive ministrations of the again but still glamorous Vilna, and the vacant, mournful stalking of plain, pathetic Jenny Linden weave together into a creepy conspiratorial veil…
Fay Weldon
Tells the story of a woman from childhood to adulthood. The book begins in wartime Brighton and follows Praxis in her various personalities—whore, adulteress and finally murderer.
