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, the story unfolds through the eyes of Wanda, a former radical who raised her daughter Scarlet to be as liberated as she. Yet, twenty-year-old Scarlet is about to discover real liberation – as a single mother in Fifties’ London.

Scarlet is 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

Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm