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Habits of the House

Habits of the House

Fay Weldon

Corvus
2012
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October 1899: all is not well at No. 17 Belgrave Square, London residence of the Earl of Dilberne when not ensconced in his ancestral seat in the Hampshire Hills. It is 7am and someone is pounding on the front door and as neither the butler nor the footman can be found, the poor Earl has been forced to open the front door to a man who shouldn't be using it. Worse, a man he is GBP30,000 in debt to, and, worse still, a man who has come to announce that the Earl's gold mine in South Africa has been destroyed by the Boers.Before it gets any better for the Earl, its going to get even worse: His wife is going to find out about his ex-mistress - the one he passed on to his son, Walter (who doesn't know her provenance, nor that said mistress is two-timing him with an old rival from Eton). His daughter Rosina, conscientious objector to The Season, member of the Fabian Society (it is well known in Society that her radical opinions exasperated her choleric grandfather to death) is going to report Walter to the police for keeping a brothel. And the energetic Tessa O'Brien, wife of a Chicago Meat Baron, is going to arrive in town looking for a husband for her disgraced daughter Minne. Meanwhile, below stairs, the servants dust, set fires, scrub floors, dream of freedom from service, steam open letters, take in waifs and strays from the streets, discuss their employer's sex lives, occasionally participate in them and prepare for the 11-course banquet the Earl will be giving for the Prince of Wales on the 7 December...
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Habits of the House

Habits of the House

Fay Weldon

Corvus
2012
nidottu
October 1899: all is not well at No. 17 Belgrave Square, London residence of the Earl of Dilberne when not ensconced in his ancestral seat in the Hampshire Hills. It is 7am and someone is pounding on the front door and as neither the butler nor the footman can be found, the poor Earl has been forced to open the front door to a man who shouldn't be using it. Worse, a man he is GBP30,000 in debt to, and, worse still, a man who has come to announce that the Earl's gold mine in South Africa has been destroyed by the Boers.Before it gets any better for the Earl, its going to get even worse: His wife is going to find out about his ex-mistress - the one he passed on to his son, Walter (who doesn't know her provenance, nor that said mistress is two-timing him with an old rival from Eton). His daughter Rosina, conscientious objector to The Season, member of the Fabian Society (it is well known in Society that her radical opinions exasperated her choleric grandfather to death) is going to report Walter to the police for keeping a brothel. And the energetic Tessa O'Brien, wife of a Chicago Meat Baron, is going to arrive in town looking for a husband for her disgraced daughter Minne. Meanwhile, below stairs, the servants dust, set fires, scrub floors, dream of freedom from service, steam open letters, take in waifs and strays from the streets, discuss their employer's sex lives, occasionally participate in them and prepare for the 11-course banquet the Earl will be giving for the Prince of Wales on the 7 December...
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Splitting

Splitting

Fay Weldon

Avalon Travel Publishing
1996
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A darkly comic novel about divorce follows a woman's psychic unravelling in the face of her impending break-up, which is matched by the shattering of her own personality into a cacophony of contending inner voices. Reprint. K. NYT.
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Worst Fears

Worst Fears

Fay Weldon

Avalon Travel Publishing
1997
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After returning home from a stint on the London stage to find her husband mysteriously dead and her female friends suspiciously smoothing over the details, an actress begins losing her mind in finding her worst fears confirmed. Reprint. K.
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Wicked Women

Wicked Women

Fay Weldon

Avalon Travel Publishing
1999
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Twenty madcap tales profile people with therapists who destroy marriages and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their indifference, and clever women steering the perils of domesticity. Reprint. NYT.
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Big Girls Don't Cry

Big Girls Don't Cry

Fay Weldon

Avalon Travel Publishing
1999
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Five women meet in a cramped London apartment in 1971 to commiserate about their dead-end lives and deadbeat husbands, laying the seeds for Medusa, a publishing house dedicated to "getting even", but two decades of new politics, sex, and infidelity take their toll on all of their lives. Reprint. NYT.
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Habits of the House

Habits of the House

Fay Weldon

St. Martins Press-3pl
2013
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From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton AbbeyAs 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 the affairs of the household in Belgrave Square; and Grace, the lady's maid who orders the life of her mistress. Lord Robert can see no financial relief to an already mortgaged estate, and, though the Season is over, his thoughts turn to securing a suitable wife (and dowry) for his son. The arrival on the London scene of Minnie, a beautiful Chicago heiress with a reputation to mend, seems the answer to all their prayers. As the writer of the pilot episode of the original Upstairs, Downstairs--Fay Weldon brings a deserved reputation for magnificent storytelling. With wit and sympathy--and no small measure of mischief--Habits of the House plots the interplay of restraint and desire, manners and morals, reason and instinct.
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Long Live the King

Long Live the King

Fay Weldon

St. Martins Press-3pl
2014
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From the award-winning writer of the original Upstairs Downstairs--the second novel in an irresistible trilogy about an Earl's family and his servants at the turn of the twentieth century. As 1901 comes to an end, there is much to be grateful for: The Dilberne fortune has been restored, and the grand Dilberne Court, with its one hundred rooms, has been saved. Lord Robert's son, Arthur, is happily married to Chicago heiress, Minnie, who is pregnant and trying to come to terms with her new role as lady of the manor, and her charming but controlling mother-in-law, Lady Isobel. As Lord Robert and Lady Isobel get caught up in the preparations of the coronation of Edward VII, they debate the future of their recently orphaned niece, Adela. Isobel and Minnie want to take her in; Robert and Arthur do not. While they argue, Adela runs away and joins a travelling group of spiritualists and has a life-saving run-in with the king. With Long Live the King, Fay Weldon continues the magnificent trilogy that began with Habits of the House. As the award-winning writer for the pilot episode of the original Upstairs Downstairs, Weldon brings her deservedly famous wit and insight to this novel of love and desire, morals and manners.
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The New Countess

The New Countess

Fay Weldon

St. Martin's Griffin
2014
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England, 1905. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne, as well as their entire regal estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a lavish visit from King Edward VII and his mistress just a few months away. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so. But even amidst the excitement, not everyone is happy. Lady Rosina--now widowed and wealthy-- insists on publishing a scandalous book despite her mother's objections. Arthur Dilberne and Chicago Heiress Minnie O'Brien's two young sons--the eldest of whom is heir to the estate--are being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes, not Minnie's. After making a shocking discovery, Minnie will take drastic measures for the sake of her children. And when fate deals a hand in the middle of the royal shooting party, the entire Dilberne estate will face upheaval once again. The New Countess is the final novel in Fay Weldon's outstanding trilogy that began with Habits of the House and Long Live the King. As the bestselling novelist and award-winning writer for the pilot episode of the original Upstairs Downstairs, Weldon magnificently lifts the curtain on early twentieth-century British society, upstairs and downstairs, under one stately roof.
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Before the War

Before the War

Fay Weldon

St. Martin's Press
2017
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London, 1922. It's a cold November morning, the station is windswept and rural, the sky is threatening snow, and the train is late. Vivien Ripple, 20 years old and an ungainly five foot eleven, waits on the platform at Dilberne Halt. She is wealthy and well-bred--only daughter to the founder of Ripple & Co, the nation's top publisher--but plain, painfully awkward, and, perhaps worst of all, intelligent. Nicknamed "the giantess," Vivvie is, in the estimation of most, already a spinster. But she has a plan. That very morning, Vivvie will ride to the city with the express purpose of changing her life forever. Enter Sherwyn Sexton: charismatic, handsome--if, to his dismay, rather short. He's an aspiring novelist and editor at Ripple & Co whose greatest love is the (similarly handsome, but taller) protagonist of his thriller series. He also has a penchant for pretty young women--single and otherwise. Sherwyn is shocked when his boss's hulking daughter, dressed in a tweed jacket and moth-eaten scarf, strides into his office and asks for his hand in marriage. But his finances are running thin to support his regular dinners on the town, and Vivien's promise to house him in comfort while he writes is simply too good to refuse. What neither of them know is that she is pregnant by another man, and will die in childbirth in just a few months... With one eye on the present and one on the past, Fay Weldon offers Vivien's fate, along with that of London between World Wars I and II: a city fizzing with change, full of flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked soldiers, and aristocrats clinging to history. Inventive, warm, playful, and full of Weldon's trademark ironic edge, Before the War is a spellbinding novel from one of the greatest writers of our time.
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Down Among the Women

Down Among the Women

Fay Weldon

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
2025
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The Mermaid Collection 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-DevilWith 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
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Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen

Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen

Fay Weldon

Audible Studios on Brilliance
2016
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Inspired by a series of instructive letters written by Austen to a novel-writing niece, Letters to Alice is an epistolary novel in which an important modern writer responds to her niece's complaint that Jane Austen is boring and irrelevant. By turns passionate and ironic, "Aunt Fay" makes Alice think - not only about books and literature, but also life and culture.
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The New Countess

The New Countess

Fay Weldon

Head of Zeus
2014
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The year is 1905 and King Edward VII has invited himself and his mistress to a shooting weekend with the Dilbernes. Now Isobel, the Countess, must turn a run-down mansion into a palace fit for a king. Just as well the family fortunes have been restored, but money can't solve everything... not even a kidnapping.The servants refuse to condone the King's morals; Isobel's daughter, Lady Rosina – now widowed and wealthy – insists on publishing a scandalous book, and the mis-spent pasts of Viscount Arthur and his Irish-American wife Minnie rear up to blacken the family name. When fate deals a hand in the middle of the shooting party, Isobel must consider not only her leading position in Society, but her entire future. Fay Weldon brings an aristocratic Edwardian household to fabulous, vibrant life in this gorgeously witty tale of manners and morals, commoners and countesses, from one of Britain's best loved authors.
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The Heart Of The Country

The Heart Of The Country

Fay Weldon

Head of Zeus
2014
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When Natalie's husband, Harry, kisses her and their two children goodbye, departs for the office, and never returns, Natalie immediately blames herself. If she hadn't been cheating on her husband every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, he never would have left her for his secretary, a local beauty queen...Now in her ninth decade, Fay Weldon is one of the foremost chroniclers of our time, a novelist who spoke to an entire generation of women by daring to say the things that no-one else would. Her work ranges over novels, short stories, children's books, nonfiction, journalism, television, radio, and the stage. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.
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Female Friends

Female Friends

Fay Weldon

Head of Zeus
2014
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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. Now in her ninth decade, Fay Weldon is one of the foremost chroniclers of our time, a novelist who spoke to an entire generation of women by daring to say the things that no-one else would. Her work ranges over novels, short stories, children's books, nonfiction, journalism, television, radio, and the stage. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.
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Mischief

Mischief

Fay Weldon

Head of Zeus
2016
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'She's a Queen of Words' CAITLIN MORAN. 'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature' HARPER'S BAZAAR. 'Readable, articulate and fascinating' THE SCOTSMAN. 'Outrageously funny' DAILY EXPRESS. 'Sharp, witty, incisive' THE TIMES. 'Wise, knowing, forthright' INDEPENDENT. Reviewers have been describing Fay Weldon's inimitable voice for years. Now, here is Fay Weldon in her own words. Choosing and and introducing twenty-one of her favourite short stories written throughout her fifty year career as one of Britain's foremost novelists. Included as a bonus is a new novella, The Ted Dreams, a ghost story for the age of cyber culture, big pharma, and surveillance.
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After the Peace

After the Peace

Fay Weldon

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
2019
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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 neighbour 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...' is the 9th Earl of Dilberne, who gave his seed back in 1979 as a stripling of twenty-two, and has now conceived a daughter – unknowingly – at the riper age of forty-two. As they say, the truth will out. And what will our Rozzie do when she finds out about her patrimony? All we know is that as a true Millennial, she will not take it lying down...
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Death of a She Devil

Death of a She Devil

Fay Weldon

Head of Zeus
2017
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In Fay Weldon's 1983 classic, The Life and Loves of a She Devil, women fought men for power and won. But in 2018, the fight continues on a new front... Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is eighty-four and keen to retire. She has worked hard to make the world as she wants it: women triumphant, men submissive. Now she is tired. Her business is done. The mantle of power and influence is up for grabs. Who can take up the role? Valerie Valeria, hot-shot millennial and Ruth's PA, is ready and eager to inherit...
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