Fay Weldon

"London, 1922. It's a cold November morning, the station is windswept and rural, the sky is threatening snow, and the train is late. Vivien Ripple, 20 years old and an ungainly five foot eleven, waits on the platform at Dilberne Halt. She is wealthy and well-bred-only daughter to the founder of Ripple & Co, the nation's top publisher-but plain, painfully awkward, and, perhaps worst of all, intelligent. Nicknamed “the giantess, ” Vivvie is, in...

As 1901 comes to an end, there is much to be grateful for: the Dilberne fortune has been restored and the grand Dilberne Court has been saved. Lord Robert's son, Arthur, is happily married to Minnie, a Chicago heiress, who is pregnant and trying to come to terms with her new role. Amid preparations for the coronation of Edward VII, Lord Robert and Lady Isobel debate the future of their recently orphaned niece, Adela. While they argue, Adela runs away...

Fay Weldon delivers a brilliant novel that lays bare the secret hearts of women and men
When Joanna May's husband, nuclear entrepreneur Carl, discovered that she was having an affair, he filed for divorced and had her lover killed. Now, sixty-year-old Joanna has no children and lives with her decades-younger gardener, a wannabe rock star. Carl, who also lives with a much younger partner, has never quite recovered from the affair—and...

Four women start a feminist publishing company to get even with men, only to discover that sisterhood is just as prone to greed and betrayal as manhood. The setting is 1970s England.

A smart, liberal, and unmarried couple in their thirties, Hattie and Martyn are delighted by their newborn daughter, Kitty, but trouble arrives when they hire a nanny, Agnieska, a Polish domestic goddess with immigration problems.

'The women of the world gave up romance, subservience and submission, and once empowered, took to hard work, truth and reality. Much good has it done them.' Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is now eighty-four and keen to retire. But who can take up her mantle? Enter Tyler Patchett, our new kind of heroine and Ruth's grandson. He's an ultra-confident, twenty-three-year-old man: beautiful, resentful and unemployed. Tyler won't be satisfied until...

In the lull between Christmas and New Year's, ten high-achieving ladies are gathered at the expensive Castle Spa in Cumbria, England, seeking to rejuvenate themselves with Botox, aromatherapy, and all-around pampering. They lounge around in the Jacuzzi, sipping champagne and telling each other the stories of their lives-from a trophy wife's spell in a Greek prison to a brain surgeon's experience with twins and mistaken identity to a stepmother's reverse-Cinderella...

Weldon uses letters to an imaginary niece, "Alice," to pay tribute to Austen, while exploring the craft of fiction from her own standpoint.

Grace has just been released from prison, where she was sent for trying to run over her ex-husband's new wife with her Jaguar in a supermarket parking lot. It may make things a little awkward when all three of them attend a glittering charity ball in London together... From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, this is a tale of passion, spite, romance, and revenge, set in the world of the rich, the stylish, the...

Madeleine wants to love, be remembered, -and take revenge Abandoned by her husband, Jarvis, for a new wife and child, Madeleine is left alone with her troubled adolescent daughter, Hilary. By day, Madeleine tends (or doesn't tend) to Hilary, who is growing more difficult by the hour. By night, she entertains dark fantasies about Jarvis's second wife-Lily the Supplanter. And what of Margot, the doctor's wife, who had a one-night stand with Jarvis many...