Fay Weldon Down Among the Women Paperback Book Multicolor

Rediscover the brilliance of Down Among the Women in the Mermaid Collection timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant todays readers. A classic from beloved national treasure Fay Weldon sees four women break the shackles of patriarchy and domesticity in 1950s London, from the author of The Lives and Loves of a SheDevilWith a foreword by Jenny ColganDown among the women. What a place to be! So says Wanda, a former radical who left her husband and raised her daughter Scarlet to be as liberated as she. But twentyyearold Scarlet, with an abortion already behind her, is about to discover real liberation as a single mother in Fifties London. Yet Scarlets not alone. Meet her friends Sylvia, the born victim respectable Jocelyn, willingly trapped in a dull, bourgeois marriage Audrey, bristling to break free of her conventional life and Helen, beautiful, vibrant and very doomed. Over the course of twenty years, from the Fifties to the Seventies, Scarlet, Wanda and their friends will wonder if they can ever become the women they always dreamed of being. Praise for Fay Weldon A national treasure Literary ReviewWickedly stylish. Bursting with intelligence and fire Daily TelegraphProlific and provocative, Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists Time OutA queen of words Caitlin Moran Fay Weldon Down Among the Women Paperback Book