Fay Weldon
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
From bestselling author Fay Weldon comes the story of three women’s enduring friendship
They 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...
They 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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change. The Earl of Dilberne is facing serious financial concerns. The ripple effects spread to everyone in the household: Lord Robert, who has gambled unwisely on the stock market and seeks a place in the Cabinet; his unmarried children, Arthur, who keeps a courtesan, and Rosina, who keeps a parrot in her bedroom; Lord Robert's wife Isobel, who orders...
Author
Series
Love and inheritance volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A second installment in the trilogy by the award-winning author of the original Upstairs Downstairs follows the restoration of the Dilberne fortune and manor at the turn of the 20th century, when Lord Robert and Lady Isobel assist coronation plans for Edward VII, anticipate the birth of a grandchild and debate the future of an orphaned niece.
Author
Series
Spoils of war volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbor and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous as it turned out. For donor no. 116349, '6ft 1in, blue eyes, blond hair, BA (Oxon), action man, aristocrat' is the ninth Earl of Dilberne, who gave his seed back in 1979 as a stripling of twenty-two,...
Author
Series
She devil volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
'The women of the world gave up romance, subservience and submission, and once empowered, took to hard work, truth and reality. Much good has it done them.' Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is now eighty-four and keen to retire. But who can take up her mantle? Enter Tyler Patchett, our new kind of heroine and Ruth's grandson. He's an ultra-confident, twenty-three-year-old man: beautiful, resentful and unemployed. Tyler won't be satisfied until...
Author
Series
Love and inheritance volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months a way. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so, and so must James, the new heir and son of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie O'Brien. But there are problems. Little James is being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes,...
Author
Publisher
Apollo Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"You've written a book, triumphantly typed "The End," but now, it seems, no one wants to publish it. What do you do next? Don't give up: ask yourself what went wrong, then do something about it. Author of more than 30 novels, stories, and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon has a lifetime of wisdom to impart on the art of writing. Why Will No-One Publish My Novel? will delight and amuse, but it...
10) Worst fears
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A widow sets out to obtain vengeance after discovering the truth about her husband. She has found out that he died making love to another woman, that the house--to the financing of which she contributed--has been left to someone else, and that he never divorced his first wife. A black comedy by the author of The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil.
19) Before the war
Author
Series
Spoils of war volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--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......
Author
Series
Publisher
Hesperus Classics
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When a noble youth arrives unannounced to request the hand of the matchless Laura, it seems their future is one of contentment and bliss -- that is until his family learn of the marriage and, one by one, they reject the new bride. So begins the series of unspeakable events that Laura must confront and overcome, by way of the occasional fainting fit and bout of delirium. Tragedy and comedy here go hand in hand as a very foolish young heroine is placed...