After the Peace
1st Edition
Published on 4. October 2018
400 pages
978-1-78408-209-3 (ISBN)
Description
How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbour and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor.
Or not so anonymous as it turned out. For donor no. 116349, '6ft 1in, blue eyes, blond hair, BA (Oxon), action man...' is the 9th Earl of Dilberne, who gave his seed back in 1979 as a stripling of twenty-two, and has now conceived a daughter - unknowingly - at the riper age of forty-two.
As they say, the truth will out. And what will our Rozzie do when she finds out about her patrimony? All we know is that as a true Millennial, she will not take it lying down...
Or not so anonymous as it turned out. For donor no. 116349, '6ft 1in, blue eyes, blond hair, BA (Oxon), action man...' is the 9th Earl of Dilberne, who gave his seed back in 1979 as a stripling of twenty-two, and has now conceived a daughter - unknowingly - at the riper age of forty-two.
As they say, the truth will out. And what will our Rozzie do when she finds out about her patrimony? All we know is that as a true Millennial, she will not take it lying down...
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78408-209-3 (9781784082093)
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After hard times and odd jobs as a lone parent, Fay Weldon became one of the top advertising copywriters of her generation. She moved to TV drama (writing the pilot episode of the iconic series Upstairs Downstairs) then turned to novels - including the classic The Life and Loves of a She Devil and The Cloning of Joanna May. Fay's sequence of novels about the Dilberne family, which encompasses her Love and Inheritance trilogy and Before the War, draws to a close with this final instalment, After the Peace. Fay's been made a CBE for services to literature and she's currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About After the Peace
- Content
- Epigraph
- Part 1
- Rozzie Is Conceived
- The Day Of The Plunger
- The Moment Of Choice
- Oh Yes, Gwinny Always Obliged
- The Other Man
- A Tricky Inheritance
- The Moving Finger
- A Matter Of Inheritance
- Not In Our Stars But In Ourselves
- Between The Notion And The Act Came The Wedding
- Childhood Memories
- A Failure Of Nerve
- A Question Of Bonding
- The Fabulous Wedding
- Degrees Of Separation
- Lost Souls
- After The Ball Is Over, After The Dancers Have Gone
- The Dreaded Sounds Of Silence
- Needless Swelling Of The Population
- Part 2
- A Case History
- Me, Me, Me #MeToo
- But No Place Like Home
- Gwinny And The Brothers
- The Cinderella Years
- A Lesson Well Learned
- Back To Where I Began
- A Morning On Primrose Hill
- A New Dawn
- The Neighbours Move In
- A Confessional
- The Return Of The Warrior Queen
- Intervention By The Gods
- The Wheels Of Fate
- A Certain Loss
- The Love Of Beauty
- Trying To Forgive And Forget
- Not Fit
- A Matter Of DNA
- Death Of A Good Plain Man
- Understanding And Forgiving
- A New World And A New Start
- You Can Forgive But Can You Forget?
- Getting On With The Neighbours
- Part 3
- Three's Company, Four's A Crowd
- Waiting, Waiting, Waiting
- The Childless Years
- I Had Sinned
- Last-Minute Panic
- Having It All
- Suspicion Dawns
- Doubting The Goddess
- A Reason For Everything
- The Art Of Forgetfulness
- Facing The Facts
- Nature Or Zature
- Some External Intervention Is Needed
- Many A Slip
- A Pact With The Knowledgeable
- Trio Con Brio
- More Waiting
- A Scene Better Forgotten
- An Explanation
- Possibilities Occur
- A Wake-Up Call
- Marriage Can Be Difficult
- Time For Reflection
- Xandra At Work
- Going Private
- Taking The Plunge
- Part 4
- Rozzie As A Child
- A Much-Filmed Child
- Naming The Child
- The Good Neighbour
- Getting By With A Baby
- The Big Break
- Out Of The Dark Age And Into The Light
- A World Of Cameras
- Screen After Screen
- A Very Clever Little Girl
- Ignorance Is Bliss
- The Wrong Time
- A Dreadful Row
- Chess Foster Mother
- I Ching: Hexagram 61. 'Inner Truth.' Pigs And Fishes
- Part 5
- Time For Reflection
- Rozzie The Dutiful Daughter
- From Out Of The Bardo Thodol
- Who Is Sent Where?
- Oh The Spurning And The Spurting!
- Truth Will Out
- The Fight Against Homelessness
- A Scandal
- Part 6
- Exodus
- Postscript
- About Fay Weldon
- Also by Fay Weldon
- About The Love & Inheritance Trilogy
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
