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Consider Vivien in November 1922: she is 24 and a spinster. She wears fashionable clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse in those times - intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's child and will die in childbirth in just a few months....

Walter Matthau stars in the story of a climate scientist trying to balance romance and research. The piece is both serious and surreal as Matthau removes the “fourth wall” while addressing the show’s recording engineer. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Zeljko Ivanek and Valerie Landsburg. Directed by Shaun McLoughlin. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, California, in June 1992.

Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new beginning to their lives.

Fay Weldon has been one of the most consistently successful of Britain's contemporary women's authors with a career stretching over 30 years. Her prolific output alternating between television plays and vigorous novels such as The Life and Loves of a She-Devil articulate a contemporary feminist consciousness.

For decades Americans have turned to LIFE magazine to see, understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. The magazine now focuses its lens on Barack Obama. This book includes a Foreword by the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and original essays by some of our finest writers, including Gay Talese, Charles Johnson, Melissa Fay Greene, Andrei Codrescu, Fay Weldon, Richard Norton Smith, Bob Greene, and several others.

How many women can you fit into one body? A novel of split personalities. A marriage, its breakdown, and a perforated heroine: one woman, many faces, many personalities, and more emerging: a crumbling house, and the rooms of that house (which in our dreams are aspects of the self). Any more traumas and it’s all over! Sir Edwin Rice has decided to divorce Lady Angelica, ex-rock star. She has behaved intolerably. He petitions the Court to set him free. Angelica fights back.

A novel about split personality, about the components of the self and genetic engineering. It tells the fate of Joanna May, who at the age of 60 discovers that she has been cloned and there are in fact four other versions of herself in existence.

Annette and Spicer make a perfect pair. But on this, the first day of the rest of their blissful lives, Spicer fails to kiss Annette goodbye, as he leaves for the office. The years of marriage shift and change: the rock of Annette's marriage may be sand.

Fay Weldon samler her sine yndlingsnoveller, som hun har skrevet over fire forskellige årtier: 70'erne, 80'erne, 90'erne og 00'erne. I sit eget forord reflekterer Weldon over, hvordan kvinders plads i samfundet har aendret sig over disse fire årtier, fra stadig at vaere delvist undertrykt i hjemmet i 70'erne til at vaere nødsaget til at finde arbejde i 00'erne. Indeholder også nye historier

Layla, Stephanie, Alice och Nancy är inga små kvinnor. Ur en yr, bacchisk dans föds idén till det feministiska förlaget Medusa. Under 20 år följer vi de olika kvinnorna och deras kamp för frihet, jämlikhet och systerskap i ett sjuttiotalets England. Fay Welson föddes 1931 i England. Hon är en brittisk författare, mest känd för romanen "En hondjävuls liv och lustar"(1984) som också blivit TV-serie och film.

Redan som barn förstår Praxis Duveen att livet är svårt. När hennes våldsamma pappa överger familjen och hennes mamma blir intagen på sjukhus, lämnas hon och hennes äldre syster Hypatia plötsligt helt ensamma i världen. När Praxis blir äldre känner hon sig ständigt vilsen och förvirrad. Hennes bekräftelsebehov leder henne genom livets toppar och dalar – hon upplever kärlek, gifter sig och lever i lyx, men tampas också med svåra utmaningar som prostitution och fattigdom.

På Belgrave Square växer missnöjet bland tjänstefolket. Grevefamiljen Dilberne brukar vanligtvis lämna London för bostaden i Hampshire under senhösten, men i år är allt annorlunda. Familjens ekonomi är bräcklig, deras anseende hänger på en skör tråd och varje dag tycks bära med sig den ena dåliga nyheten efter den andra. Det enda som kan rädda dem är om de vuxna barnen, Rosina och Arthur, lyckas ta sig i kragen och ingå fördelaktiga äktenskap.

How to be a reader - how to be a writer. All you need to know. Alice is an 18-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own niece, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.