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Big Women

By Fay Weldon

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| Paperback | 9780006550976

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Fay Weldon's new novel blasts into the Brave Now World which women - and their men - fought for, agonised over, and thought they would inherit.

There's the feminist publishing house, Medusa, founded one balmy evening in a flurry of argument, peace-making naked dancing.

There's Layla: noisy, Continue

Fay Weldon's new novel blasts into the Brave Now World which women - and their men - fought for, agonised over, and thought they would inherit.

There's the feminist publishing house, Medusa, founded one balmy evening in a flurry of argument, peace-making naked dancing.

There's Layla: noisy, darlingish, high-profile: 'l am the only right thinking feminist there is. It's all the others who are out of step.'

And Alice, the academic, the philosopher, the - eventually -- Glastonbury witch.

And Nancy, boring, sensible Nancy who is the only one with any business nous.

And Stephanie - the one who leaves her husband and children to embrace politics, men, other women ...

Their stories are intertwined with twenty years of all our lives - blissful, rage-filled, treacherous, redemptive.

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  • Devil in the women

    There are at least three different ways of approaching Fay Weldon's 22nd novel. Anyone who knows anything about Virago will approach it curiously, since it's a surprisingly direct roman-a-clef based on the real people who founded that publishing hous ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 345 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0006550975
  • ISBN-13: 9780006550976
  • Publisher: Flamingo
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 1998
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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