Fay Weldon

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Works

The Heart of the Country

Fay Weldon

Set in a small Somerset town—Jane Austen country— Weldon’s novel is about a marriage gone awry.

 

Worst Fears

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…

 

Praxis

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.

 
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