Fay Weldon: Down Among the Women, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Down Among the Women
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 09/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781405982641
- Item number:
- 12183783
- Volume:
- 256 Pages
- Weight:
- 500 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 35 mm
- Release date:
- 11.9.2025
- Series:
- The Mermaid Collection
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Rediscover the brilliance of Down Among the Women in the Mermaid Collection - timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant today's 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 She-Devil With a foreword by Jenny Colgan
'Down 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 twenty-year-old Scarlet, with an abortion already behind her, is about to discover real liberation - as a single mother in Fifties' London.
Yet Scarlet's 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 Review 'Wickedly stylish. Bursting with intelligence and fire' Daily Telegraph
'Prolific and provocative, Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists' Time Out'A queen of words' Caitlin Moran
Biography
Fay Weldon, geb. 1931 in England, ist 'eine der unterhaltsamsten und provokantesten Gegenwartsautorinnen' (Sunday Telegraph). Ihr pointierter, lässiger Stil, der sich durch Empathie und Scharfblick auszeichnet, ist ihr Markenzeichen. Fay Weldon gilt als Expertin für weibliche Lebenslügen und Rollenspiele. Ihr Werk wurde vielfach prämiert und in dreiundzwanzig Sprachen übersetzt. Sie arbeitete als Werbetexterin und studierte Psychologie und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Mit dreißig veröffentlichte sie ihr erstes Buch. Die Autorin ist Mitglied der Royal Society of Literature.
