Down Among the Women

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 ''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'' ''Prolific and provocative, Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists''

Product details

• Authors: Fay Weldon, Weldon Fay
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.09.2025
• EAN: 9781405982641
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-8264-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Series: The Mermaid Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); London, Greater London, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1950 to c 1959, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Feminism and feminist theory, c 1960 to c 1969, FICTION / Feminist, Classic fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II