Death of a She Devil

In Fay Weldon's 1983 classic, The Life and Loves of a She Devil, women fought men for power and won. But in 2018, the fight continues on a new front... Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is eighty-four and keen to retire. She has worked hard to make the world as she wants it: women triumphant, men submissive. Now she is tired. Her business is done. The mantle of power and influence is up for grabs.Who can take up the role? Valerie Valeria, hot-shot millennial and Ruth's PA, is ready and eager to inherit...

“"Weldon's freakishly eccentric antiheroes and antiheroines enliven this contemporary manifesto on power, transformation, and the illusion of authority." -- Booklist”

Elegantly written, sharply perceptive and fantastically good fun Daily Mail
She's a queen of words. A tribal elder -- Caitlin Moran
Funny, waspish and acute... A fierce retrospective on the achievements of the women's movement - and its cost - and a defiant hurrah for grumpy old women' The Times
One of our very best writers The Sunday Times
A brilliant black comedy Mail on Sunday Event magazine
Fay has been incredibly vocal about transgender issues, and her new book features her trademark black humour - and some shocking twists Closer
A bawdy controversial read Woman & Home
It's good to have Fay Weldon back, poking the hornet's nest of modern feminism with her sly eye Daily Express
Weldon's amused defiance is irresistible Mail on Sunday.
Scalpel-sharp and laceratingly funny Good Housekeeping.
A delight to read. Each chapter has a hilarious heading, revealing Weldon's affinity with the pre-Romantic tradition of Sterne and Swift Irish Times
Fay Weldon's new novel is certain to be a bestseller Catholic Herald
I suspect Weldon couldn't care less about political correctness... for her, it's all literary mischief' i newspaper
A kind of coda to a brilliant literary career... The satire is neat and very funny... A politically incorrect novel that is at the same time deliberately indecorous in a way that will make anyone feel like a prude if they object to a comedy as swaggering in its confidence and as subtle in its observation as this... Obviously the work of a genius' Sydney Morning Herald

Fay Weldon is now recognized as one of our most important and distinctive literary voices. She published her first novel, A Fat Woman's Joke, in 1967, and has gone on to write over thirty works. In 2001, she received a CBE for services to literature.

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