A classic long-seller that sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide, Salt on my Skin is now re-issued with a new introduction by renowned writer and feminist Fay Weldon‘A leading French feminist and writer, Groult drew wide attention with this sexually daring novel’—The NY TimesSalt on My Skin is a classic long-seller and has been translated into 32 languagesSet in France in the 1960s, this highly-charged novel follows the passionate relationship between misma...

The basis for the movie She-Devil starring Meryl Streep: "A novel of blazingly hot revenge . . . Heaven [has] no rage like love turned to hate" ( New York Magazine).Ruth loves her husband, Bobbo, a handsome, successful accountant. But Bobbo has fallen in love with Mary Fisher, a bestselling romance novelist who lives in a high tower overlooking the sea, pampered by her young, virile manservant. Mary is petite, dainty, and lovely. He tells Ruth abou...

"[A] hilarious page-turner…Weldon's diabolically clever satire of greed, fashion, sex, and age is smart entertainment of the highest order."— BooklistGrace 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 aut...

An aunt imparts wisdom to her teenage niece, inspired by the works of Jane Austen, in this novel from the Man Booker Prize–nominated author.Alice is an aspiring novelist with green hair and zero interest in reading Jane Austen for her college English class. However, her Aunt Fay, a novelist herself, isn't about to let Alice stick her nose up at Austen or other enduring authors."You find her boring, petty and irrelevant, and, that as the world is in crisis, ...

"Wickedly funny satire of modern love, work, and parenthood . . . deft plot twists and a final delicious surprise"—from the New York Times Notable author ( People).Fay Weldon lets her incisive wit loose on a hot issue facing many modern families—child care, and what can happen when that involves having a nanny under your roof. Hattie and Martyn are the proud parents of newborn Kitty; both are in their early thirties, smart, handsome, and, for reasons of li...

Fay Weldon tells the story of a common-law marriage in crisis while skewering two other institutions of reverence and repression: psychiatry and the British middle classAfter ten years of living with Spicer, Annette is finally pregnant; her first book is about to be published; and her common-law marriage is unraveling—or, rather, it starts to after Spicer goes into psychotherapy. Suddenly, Spicer is taking up astrology, finding constant fault with Annette, and makin...

A New York Times Notable Book: The "wise and haunting" memoir from one of England's most witty and beloved writers is "from first to last a wonder" (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post).From life as a poor unwed mother in London to becoming one of England's bestselling authors, Fay Weldon has crammed more than most into her years. Wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, winer and diner—Fay leads us through her peripatetic life...

From bestselling author Fay Weldon comes the story of three women's enduring friendshipThey first met as children in 1940s London. Thirty years later, Marjorie, Chloe, and Grace make their way through an almost unrecognizable post-war society, coping with husbands, children, parents, and the messy business of life.Trapped by her dependency on her tormented screenwriter husband, Chloe finds a novel way of liberating herself from his sexual and domestic oppress...

First-wave feminism takes front and center in this fearless novel, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, about women determined to succeed in a man's world—only to be foiled by their own ambition"A Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle."It's the 1970s, and the sexual revolution is just beginning. Four women have decided to open a feminist publishing house. Named in honor of the gorgon who turned men's hearts to stone, MedusaPublishing gives the ...

Suburban complacency and marital infidelity get their comeuppance in this black comedy by Fay WeldonWhen Natalie's husband, Harry, kisses her and their two children goodbye, departs for the office, and never returns, Natalie immediately blames herself. If she hadn't been cheating on her husband every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, he never would have left her for his secretary, a local beauty queen.Left penniless, without a husband, and eventually without a...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Wicked Women brings together twenty tales that lay bare the minds and hearts of men, women, and childrenVictims, liberators, blackmailers, healers, and ghosts—they're just a few of the fascinating men and women you'll meet in this stellar, boundary-defying anthology.From a heartless lover to a therapist who's exposed for being a child hater, Weldon's characters search for meaning, betray their vows, take ple...

It's 1960s London, and the sexual revolution is in full swing in Fay Weldon's enduring story of lust, marriage, family, art, avarice, ambition, betrayal, and true loveClifford Wexford and Helen Lally meet at a party and fall passionately in love. But their baby, Nell, isn't yet one when their marriage unravels. Divorce quickly follows on the heels of wedding bliss, and so begins a battle for Nell's care and affection. Helen remarries; Clifford has affairs—and someth...