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Informationen zum Autor Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include ‘The Life and Loves of a She-Devil’, ‘Puffball’, ‘Big Women’ and ‘Rhode Island Blues’. She has also published her autobiography ‘Auto da Fay’. Her most recent novel was the critically acclaimed ‘She May Not Leave’. She lives in Dorset. Klappentext Hattie and Martyn are a decent! hard-working young couple - partners with a new baby! bickering over whether they should get married and how to arrange their lives in a morally sustainable way. Hattie has given up work to look after baby Kitty! but she is! frankly! bored by domesticity. Then they meet Agnieszka! a Polish woman who's married to a bus driver back home and is sending money back to her old mother and sister. Martyn and Hattie take pity and invite her to live with them. Hattie eventually succumbs to temptation and asks Agnieszka to baby-sit! and soon she's back at full-time work. In fact life is pretty much as it was before the baby came along! except the house is cleaner and better organised! and she's galloping ahead in her career. But soon! things begin to sour... Zusammenfassung A brilliant and caustic cautionary tale from one of Britain's best-loved and most controversial writers.
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'A witty, wicked, lethally elegant novel.' Daily Telegraph
'A new novel by Fay Weldon is always a reason to celebrate and this has all the ingredients that make her writing so addictive...Offering an enjoyably waspish commentary on the changing nature of childcare - and of women's expectations - since the 1960's, "She May Not Leave" is as funny and dark as anything that Weldon has written.' The Times
'Weldon is on top form in this latest novel, bringing to old dramas delicious new twists.' Daily Mail
'Weldon's style, that virtuoso of intelligence and insinuating garrulousness, achieves a kind of ideal equilibrium between therapy and gossip. It has all the irresistible allure of a really good bitch and the voluptuous resonance on a deeply self-indulgent bout of self-analysis.' Jane Shilling, The Times
'Gripping stuff ... Weldon is on fine form.' Observer
'Smart and fast-paced, the novel is an amusing cautionary tale with a twist.' Sunday Times
