With wicked wit and savage glee, British novelist Fay Weldon "breaks taboos like tape at a marathon" ( Los Angeles Times).Perhaps best known for her "small, mad masterpiece," The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Man Booker Prize nominee Fay Weldon has been writing some of the boldest, funniest satirical novels for over half a century ( The Washington Post Book World). In her mid-eighties, she's penned a scathing sequel, The Death of a S...

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...

Bestselling author Fay Weldon delivers a scathing satire about society's obsession with female weight and beauty in the 1960s, as relevant today as when it was first publishedAfter a lifetime of gorging herself, Esther Wells has an epiphany: She and her husband, Alan, are going on a diet. Dedicated foodies throughout their marriage, they are about to discover what happens when new passions supplant old.Deprived of the meals he loves, Alan, an advertising ma...

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...

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, ...

A young couple's dream of a rustic idyll turns into a battle between good and evil in Fay Weldon's novel about passion, deceit, and witchcraftLiffey longs to live in the country. Her dream comes true when she and her husband, Richard, rent the aptly named Honeycomb Cottage. Richard will commute from the city on weekends; Liffey will have a baby. It seems like an ideal arrangement.But being pregnant, living in the country, and waiting for a husband to come hom...

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 ...

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...

A vibrant collection of stories about women making life-altering decisions, by the bestselling author of The Life and Loves of a She DevilIn this superlative anthology, Fay Weldon introduces readers to a cast of mothers, children, wives, and lovers—all of them unforgettable, timeless female characters.In "Subject to Diary," a successful forty-ish career woman sits in an abortion clinic pondering motherhood. In "The Year of the Green Pudding," a woma...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this modern masterpiece by Fay Weldon asks, What do women really want?Praxis Duveen is a survivor. At five years old, in 1920s England, she is still innocent, the product of an unstable mother and a flighty father who abandoned Praxis and her half-crazy sister, Hypatia. As the decades fly by, Praxis experiences many incarnations, from prostitute to rape victim, wife to adulteress and eventually becomes the accidental le...

Fay Weldon delivers a brilliant novel that lays bare the secret hearts of women and menWhen 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 Joanna is about to discover just h...

From beyond the grave, a woman recounts the story of her life in this captivating novella by bestselling author Fay WeldonFrom her lofty perch in heaven amid the GSWITS (Great Screen Writers in the Sky), Gabriella Sumpter prepares to tell the story of her life. Because, as she claims, there are no rules for fiction writing, she will begin with her death and conclude with her birth.Just three months dead, and buried in a custom-made white silk shift, Gabriell...