Fay Weldon

Clifford Wexford er 35 r gammel, kunsthandler, dygtig, vellidt af pressen, og et s rdeles passende parti for den gnistrende 22- rige Helen Lally, datter af en fattig kunstner, der dog snart bliver b de rig og ber mt. Clifford og Helen falder for hinanden med et brag, gifter sig og producerer den bed rende datter Nell - alt sammen i l bet af ni m neder i de glade tressere ... Sk bnen f rer Clifford op mod stjernerne, indtil han bliver offer for en intrigant million se, der er fast besluttet p at have ham for sig selv - og s tager handlingen fart "M nds liv og hjerter" er endnu er stor sejr for Fay Weldon. En vidunderlig morsom, handlingsm ttet, konstant overrumplende roman. Den engelske forfatter Fay Weldon (f. 1931) har gennem hele sit forfatterskab skrevet med stor indlevelse, k rlighed og humor om kvindelivets kompleksitet i b de essays, novellesamlinger og romaner, hvoraf over tyve er udkommet p dansk. Derudover har Weldon skrevet tv-dramatik, kulturjournalistik og en selvbiografi. "At l se Fay Weldon er som at drikke champagne... og man bliver ved hele natten. "M nds liv og hjerter" m tte l ses i t str k." - Jyllands-Posten

Beskrivelse: Tilbage til kredsen af fire gifte veninder kommer Leslie Beck. Livskraften Leslie - veludstyrede Leslie, manden de alle har v ret forelsket i. Nu, 20 r efter, er han enkemand, men livskraften har han ikke mistet. Og den f r de fire kvinder at f le. Gamle sk nderier mellem dem blusser op, hemmeligheder, der ikke t ler dagens lys, kommer frem. "Livskraft" er en underholdende og sexet roman, en historie om gteskab og utroskab og en guide til de modstridende f lelser, vi m der i vores liv med en anden person. Det er en roman om den uimodst elige gl de ved sex - og de katastrofer, det kan medf re. Den engelske forfatter Fay Weldon (f. 1931) har gennem hele sit forfatterskab skrevet med stor indlevelse, k rlighed og humor om kvindelivets kompleksitet i b de essays, novellesamlinger og romaner, hvoraf over tyve er udkommet p dansk. Derudover har Weldon skrevet tv-dramatik, kulturjournalistik og en selvbiografi.

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...

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.

'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.

An absorbing, inventive novel of love, death and aristocracy in inter-war London.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

Your writer, in conjuring this tale of murder, adultery, incest, ghosts, redemption and remorse, takes you first to a daffodil-filled garden in Highgate, North London, where, just outside the kitchen window, something startling shimmers on the very edges of perception. Fluttering and chattering, these are our kehua - a whole multiplying flock of Maori spirits (all will be explained) goaded into wakefulness by the conversation within. Scarlet - a long-legged, skinny young woman of the new world order - has announced to Beverley - her aged grandmother - that she intends to leave home and husband for the glamorous actor, Jackson Wright - he of the vampire films. Beverley may be well on her way to her ninth decade, but she's not beyond using this intelligence to stir up a little trouble. And neither are the kehua outside the window. The sins and traumas of the past haunt us all. Call them hungry ghosts, grateful dead, dybbuks, kelpies, poltergeists, furies or kehua, we carry them with us - across continents, oceans, decades and generations. Quite how they became attached to a three-year-old white girl is the origin of your writer's tale. Suffice to say that murder is at the root of it all, that Beverley and her female bloodline carry a weighty spiritual burden and that this is the story of how they learn to live with their ghosts, or maybe how their ghosts learn to live with them...

Meet Frances, one-time national treasure, former famous writer... and Fay Weldon's might-have-been younger sister. It's 2013. Fay has long since emigrated (wouldn't you, if your imaginary sister stole your future?), and eighty-year-old Frances, her glory days gone, is savouring a slice of National Meat Loaf in her once-magnificent house. Communism's dead, capitalism's fallen, and now government bailiffs are banging on her door... How did it come to this? When did CiviCams and powdered egg replace gossipy dinners and chocolate mousse? As Frances tries to make sense of her story, fact and fiction begin to implode. What secrets are her family hiding? Is her skunk-smoking grandson plotting revolution upstairs? And just what makes National Meat Loaf so tasty?

Sappho är en ung begåvad manusförfattare som gift sig med den nitton år äldre änklingen Gavin. Hon har även blivit styvmor till hans två barn. Något som får ödesdigra konsekvenser. För att undvika en gruvlig konflikt med sin styvdotter lämnar Sappho sina dagböcker i sin mors vård, med uppmaningen att INTE läsa dem. Vilket modern Emily naturligtvis gör, hon är Freudiansk psykoanalytiker och tar uppmaningen som en invit. Därtill diskuterar hon innehållet med sin Jungianske granne och älskare. Med intelligent humor driver Fay Weldon med psykoanalysens olika riktningar. Men mest av allt är det en klok, övertygande och engagerande berättelse om ett modernt familjedrama, skriven med författarens typiskt sardoniska touch. Fay Weldon - författaren bakom den stora succén "En hondjävuls liv och lustar" fortsätter att skriva och får utmärkta recensioner i Storbritannien och övriga världen.

Fay Weldon’s latest novel, The Spa, is full of all the biting humor and glittering prose that made her name. Always sharp tongued and occasionally libidinous, it offers a glimpse of the despairs and dalliances of a set of high-powered women who have burned paths through?and sometimes been burned by?their worlds and the men in them. It is the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and ten high-achieving ladies are gathered at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking to rejuvenate themselves with Botox, aromatherapy, and all-around pampering. They lounge around in the Jacuzzi, sipping champagne, and telling each other the stories of their lives. The Trophy Wife recounts her spell in a Greek prison; the Brain Surgeon tells of twins and mistaken identity; the Judge describes a sex change that allowed him to judge the pleasures of the bedroom from both male and female perspectives; and the Stepmother remembers her unforgettable story, a reversal of Cinderella’s, with the stepmother fated to play the victim. The Spa is a darkly funny sketch of a group of women who, despite prejudice, imprisonment, domestic catastrophes and romantic debacles, have risen to the top of their respective worlds.