Fay Weldon
1) Kehua!
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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,...
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A vibrant collection of stories about women making life-altering decisions, by the bestselling author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil In this superlative anthology, Fay Weldon introduces readers to a cast of mothers, children, wives, and lovers-all of them unforgettable, timeless female characters. In "Subject to Diary," a successful forty-ish career woman sits in an abortion clinic pondering motherhood. In "The Year of the Green Pudding,"...
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Bestselling author Fay Weldon delivers a scathing satire about society's obsession with female weight and beauty in the 1960s, as relevant today as when it was first published After a lifetime of gorging herself, Esther Wells has an epiphany: She and her husband, Alan, are going on a diet. Dedicated foodies throughout their marriage, they are about to discover what happens when new passions supplant old. Deprived of the meals he loves, Alan, an...
