Down Among the Women
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2026
Summary
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Down Among The Women by Fay Weldon, with a foreword by Jenny Colgan.
“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 he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405982641 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1405982640 |
| Author: | Fay Weldon |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 17mm |
| Series: | The Mermaid Collection |
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Critics Review
A national treasure * Literary Review *
Wickedly stylish. Bursting with intelligence and fire * Daily Telegraph *
Prolific and provocative, Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists * Time Out *
A queen of words – Caitlin Moran
About The Author
Fay Weldon
Born in Birmingham but brought up in New Zealand, Fay returned to the UK aged 15 just after the Second World War. After studying at St Andrews, she moved to London in the early 1950s, working for the Foreign Office and then in advertising. She began writing for radio and television in 1963 when she fell pregnant with her first child, producing plays for ITV and the BBC and writing three episodes of Upstairs Downstairs, including the first in 1971. In the end, she wrote over 70 scripts for television, including an adaptation of Pride & Prejudice in 1980. Her first novel was published in 1967 and was followed by over 30 others, including The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil which became a beloved BBC series. Fay died in Northampton, England on 4 January 2023, at the age of 91.
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