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 autho...

A husband's sudden death reveals some unpleasant truths: "Fast-paced black comedy . . . compulsively readable." — Publishers WeeklyWhen 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 with grief to realize she's b...

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, ...

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...

A weekend in the country goes awry in Fay Weldon's wickedly entertaining novel of lust, avarice, and murderNineteen-year-old Elsa is poor in material goods, but rich in looks. Her employer and lover, forty-four-year-old Victor, used to be a tax accountant. Now he's an antique dealer who gave up his family for Elsa, and together they live in a room behind his shop. For her birthday, Victor is treating Elsa to a weekend in the country, courtesy of his rich friends, Ha...

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...

Three novels from the "prolific and provocative" British satirist: from the joy of inspiration to the shock of betrayal and the pleasure of vengeance ( Time Out).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...

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...

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 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...

A move into an old folks' home marks a new stage of life for both grandmother and granddaughter in this "wry and witty" novel ( Entertainment Weekly).On one side of the Atlantic, Sophia Moore, an emotionally guarded film editor—troubled by her mother's long-ago suicide and her father's abandonment—overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues an unfulfilling affair with the famous director of her latest movie.But when she trave...