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Rediscover the brilliance of Down Among the Women in the Mermaid Collection - timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant today's readers.
A classic from beloved national treasure Fay Weldon sees four women break the shackles of patriarchy and domesticity in 1950s London, from the author of The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil

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 her friends: Sylvia, the born victim; respectable Jocelyn, willingly trapped in a dull, bourgeois marriage; Audrey, bristling to break free of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant - and very doomed.

Over the course of twenty years, from the Fifties to the Seventies, Scarlet, Wanda and their friends will wonder if they can ever become the women they always dreamed of being.

Praise for Fay Weldon:
'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
Rediscover the brilliance of Down Among the Women in the Mermaid Collection - timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant today's readers.
A classic from beloved national treasure Fay Weldon sees four women break the shackles of patriarchy and domesticity in 1950s London, from the author of The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil

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 her friends: Sylvia, the born victim; respectable Jocelyn, willingly trapped in a dull, bourgeois marriage; Audrey, bristling to break free of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant - and very doomed.

Over the course of twenty years, from the Fifties to the Seventies, Scarlet, Wanda and their friends will wonder if they can ever become the women they always dreamed of being.

Praise for Fay Weldon:
'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
Über den Autor
Fay Weldon
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: The Mermaid Collection
Inhalt: VIII
248 S.
ISBN-13: 9781405982641
ISBN-10: 1405982640
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Weldon, Fay
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 196 x 124 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Fay Weldon
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2025
Gewicht: 0,214 kg
Artikel-ID: 133979227

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