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Fay Weldon takes "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" to dazzling new heights in this quintessential novel about a wife's revenge 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 about his affair and when Ruth reacts...
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The wife may be the last to know, but she's the first to come out on top in this tale of marital betrayal and delicious comeuppance by bestselling author Fay Weldon When Worst Fears opens, Alexandra Ludd has been a widow for less than seventy hours, her husband, Ned, former theater critic and stay-at-home father to their young son, Sascha, having died of an apparent heart attack. Alexandra, beautiful, adored darling of the London stage, is too overcome...
4) Remember Me
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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...
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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 Joanna is about...
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Man Booker Prize nominee Fay Weldon has been writing some of the boldest, funniest satirical novels for over half a century. In her mid-eighties, she's penned a scathing sequel, The Death of a She Devil.
The Life and Loves of a She Devil
A New York Times Notable Book
Weldon tells the story of Ruth, whose husband, Bobbo, has fallen in love with Mary Fisher, a bestselling romance novelist who lives in a high tower overlooking the sea. Mary is petite,...
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Three novels from the British satirist: from the joy of inspiration to the shock of betrayal and the pleasure of vengeance. Perhaps best known for 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. In her mid-eighties, she's penned a scathing sequel, The Death of a She Devil, The three volumes collected here-from an epistolary novel inspired...
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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 witchcraft Liffey 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...