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This is a wickedly sharp, history-bending, cosmos-colliding novel from one of Britain's most iconic authors. Meet Frances, Fay's might-have-been younger sister, an unreliable narrator who bends history and blends universes to create a sparkling and prophetic portrait of a once and future Britain. It's 2013 and eighty-year-old Frances is listening to the debt collectors pounding on the front door of Number 3, Chalcot Crescent. While she waits for the bailiffs to give up and leave, Frances writes. She writes about the boyfriends she borrowed and the husband she stole from Fay. She writes about the Shock, the Crunch, the Crisis and the Bite, about NUG the National Unity Government, about ration books and National Meat Loaf (suitable for vegetarians). She writes about family secrets...The problem is that fact and fiction are blurring in Frances' mind. Are faceless assassins trying to kill her younger daughter? Are her grandchildren really plotting a terrorist coup upstairs? What on earth can NUG have against vegetarians? And just what makes National Meat Loaf so tasty?
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A novelist, playwright and essayist, Fay Weldon is best known for her novels The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Praxis, and Worst Fears. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Andrews in 1990, and was awarded a CBE from the Queen in 2001. In 2006, Weldon was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University in West London. She lives in Dorset with her husband, the poet Nick Fox.
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Weldon’s twenty-ninth novel creates a history for her real-life stillborn sister, calling her Frances and placing her in 2013 London, where the recession has turned the once-thriving city into an Orwellian dictatorship. This alternate universe is ruled by the National Unity Government. The state controls everything: politicians have been replaced by sociologists, food is rationed, and everything is monitored by CCTV. Frances Weldon, once a rich and successful novelist, spends much of the story huddled on the stairs of her home in Chalcot Crescent, hiding from debt collectors. Frances uses her perch to fill in the story, an 80-year adventure of family drama, speculation, and confession, with occasional philosophical asides on aging, fate, biology, and the nature of fiction. Frances discovers her family’s involvement in a planned overthrow of the government, casting an additional shadow on her circumstances. But plot is not the driving force here. What makes this novel succeed is Weldon herself, Fay that is. Her prose is observant, clever, witty, and thought-provoking despite its bleak framework—a heavy subject made palatable, even engaging, because Fay Weldon does the telling. --Carol Gladstein
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- PublisherCorvus
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1848873069
- ISBN 13 9781848873063
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages278
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