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Wicked Women

Fay Weldon author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:1st Jul '08

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia.

Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deception rules; where a bully can believe he’s a victim; a blackmailer see herself as a healer; and an artist’s slave be sure she’s free.

Travel in space and time: meet Miss Jacobs, the silent psychoanalyst, who receives the confessions of saints and sinners; discover the heart of a nuclear scientist, forcibly retired, who does his hopeless best to resist the wiles of a self-seeking, talking, beautiful New Age journalist – in fact all human life is here, and still in amazingly good heart, considering.

‘Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy.’
Spectator

‘Weldon’s writing is seductively readable, her magic realism is never pretentious; it is understated and convincing.’
Times Literary Supplement

ISBN: 9780007291885

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 125g

304 pages