Multiple personality disorder gets a modern makeover in Fay Weldon's wickedly subversive, hilarious send-up of English traditions and divorce Lady Angelica Rice used to be a teenage rock sensation called Kinky Virgin. She gave it up to marry fat, lazy, near-destitute Sir Edwin Rice-and that's when Angelica's "splitting" began: a chorus of four women in her head, each one demanding to be heard. Now, after eleven years-during which she spent all her...

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...

Taking its inspiration from Jane Austen's relationship with her niece, Letters to Alice follows eighteen-year-old Alice and her "Aunt Fay," whose letters preach the value of great art With the dire warning, "You must read, Alice, before it's too late," Fay Weldon, or "Aunt Fay," implores her "niece" to immerse herself in the works of enduring authors.   Alternating between passages from Jane Austen's novels and accounts of her own career, Weldon...

Fay Weldon's gripping novel asks the questions, Can a politician's life ever be private? And, Can the past ever stay buried? Isabel has a secret: Seven years ago, she had an affair and ended up pregnant. A few months later, she married Homer Rust, who has no idea that Jason isn't his son. Now, Isabel's former lover, a US senator poised for the presidential nomination, is threatening her contented family life and her career as a journalist.   Dandridge...

Satan tempts mortal man and woman in Fay Weldon's witty and wildly inventive riff on Doctor Faustus Selling one's soul to the devil takes on new meaning in this fiendishly clever page-turner by Fay Weldon. Once upon a time, in the dullest town imaginable, there lived three girls: Laura, the pretty one; Annie, the one desperate to escape; and Carmen, the one who catches the devil's eye.   She's sixteen when Bernard Bellamy spies her from the back...

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...

The beloved author of The Life and Loves of a She Devil sends up marriage, 1950s London, fad diets, celebrity feminists, and Doctor Faustus. The Fat Woman's Joke: A novel about sex, food, marriage, and the indignities of the 1960s. After a lifetime of gorging herself, Esther Wells has an epiphany: She and her husband are going on a diet. Dedicated foodies throughout their marriage, they are about to discover what happens when new passions supplant...

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...

Fay Weldon's first short-story collection features her trademark themes of feminism, sisterhood, and domestic livelihood, where the ties that bind can also draw blood Love, loss, and the ever-changing sexual battlefield are the themes of this early anthology by master storyteller Fay Weldon: In "Christmas Tree," the adulterous playwright hero embarks on a quest for true love, perhaps the most self-deceiving state of all; "Breakages" explores the fragility...