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c 1980 to c 1990, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
A new edition of the bestselling classic tale of a woman scorned.
Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy that she becomes truly diabolic. Within weeks she has burnt down the family home, collected the insurance, made love to the local drunk and embarked on a course of destruction and revenge.
A blackly comic satire of the war of the sexes, LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL is the fantasy of the wronged woman made real.
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Praise for The Life and Loves of a She Devil
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A tour de force: a macabre, fast-moving moral fable - The Times
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More audacious and striking in design than anything that has gone before . . . carried out with such dash and glitter - Times Literary Supplement
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Rousing . . . The fun grows steadily blacker and wilder - Guardian
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A savage, sadistic even, but beautifully and compellingly written satire - Sunday Express
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon was a well known novelist, playwright, critic and scriptwriter. Her first novel, A Fat Woman's Joke, was published in 1967 and she published 38 more novels after that, including the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Life and Loves of a She Devil, which has been adapted for screen, television and radio. She also wrote seven collections of short stories and several works of non-fiction, including her autobiography Auto Da Fay and Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen. Awarded a CBE in 2001, she was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in 2012.
For more information about Fay and her work, visit her website: www.fayweldon.co.uk.
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