
Fay Weldon Omnibus
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Comprising 14 novels and 3 short story collections, the most comprehensive omnibus of the wickedly witty Fay Weldon available.
Contains: DOWN AMONG THE WOMEN; FEMALE FRIENDS; LITTLE SISTERS; PRAXIS; POLARIS; THE SHRAPNEL ACADEMY; THE RULES OF LIFE; THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY; LEADER OF THE BAND; THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAY; DARCY'S UTOPIA; MOON OVER MINNEAPOLIS; GROWING RICH; LIFE FORCE; SPLITTING; WICKED WOMEN; WORST FEARS.
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- Intro
- Welcome Page
- 01 - DARCY'S UTOPIA
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Eleanor Darcy is interviewed by Hugo Vansitart
- Valerie Jones is surprised by Joy
- From Valerie Jones' first interview with Eleanor Darcy
- Valerie gets one or two things wrong
- Eleanor Darcy's birth
- Valerie stops work to listen to Hugo's tape
- Apricot loses one mother and gains another
- Valerie leaps to conclusions
- Valerie Jones returns to ask further questions of Eleanor Darcy
- Valerie and Lou manage a conversation
- Apricot Smith marries Bernard Parkin
- Eleanor Darcy speaks to Hugo, and Valerie listens
- Valerie suffers from emotion
- Bernard and Ellen's Catholic months
- Valerie's garden interview with Eleanor Darcy
- Valerie ventures out of the Holiday Inn
- Ellen's Marxist years with Bernard
- Valerie receives a letter from Eleanor Darcy
- Ellen's Marxist life with Bernard comes to an end
- Hugo's restaurant interview with Eleanor Darcy
- Valerie meets her lover's wife
- Bernard's encounters with Nerina
- Hugo's further interview with Eleanor Darcy
- Valerie is shocked
- Brenda finds Ellen in a state of enchantment
- A taped telephone interview between Valerie and Eleanor
- Valerie misses home
- Bernard and Ellen part
- Transcript of a Hugo/Eleanor tape
- Eleanor entertains
- Valerie sits up in bed and listens to tape
- Brenda's letter to Hugo
- Julian overdoes it
- Valerie speaks to Belinda
- Eleanor goes to visit Jed and Prune
- Valerie laughs thrice
- A disturbance in the economy
- Lou comes to the Holiday Inn
- Hugo and Eleanor walk down to the end of the garden
- Valerie observes the birth of a new religion
- Copyright
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- 02 - DOWN AMONG THE WOMEN
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Chapter 1: Wanda, Scarlet and Byzantia
- Chapter 2: Ask Your Father
- Chapter 3: A Certain Sunday
- Chapter 4: Scarlet is Brought to Bed
- Chapter 5: Susan is Selfish
- Chapter 6: Problems and Solutions
- Chapter 7: Scarlet Shows Off
- Chapter 8: Scarlet Goes to Market
- Chapter 9: On The Move
- Chapter 10: Sorting Out
- Chapter 11: Crucifixions
- Chapter 12: Nice People
- Chapter 13: Solutions
- Chapter 14: Down Among The Women
- Down Among the Women
- Copyright
- Contents
- 03 - FEMALE FRIENDS
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 37
- Chapter 38
- Chapter 39
- Chapter 40
- Chapter 41
- Chapter 42
- Chapter 43
- Chapter 44
- Chapter 45
- Chapter 46
- Chapter 47
- Chapter 48
- Chapter 49
- Chapter 50
- Chapter 51
- Chapter 52
- Chapter 53
- Chapter 54
- Chapter 55
- Chapter 56
- Chapter 57
- Chapter 58
- Chapter 59
- Chapter 60
- Chapter 61
- Chapter 62
- Copyright
- Contents
- 04 - GROWING RICH
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Copyright
- Contents
- 05 - LEADER OF THE BAND
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1: Travelling South
- Chapter 2: Details
- Chapter 3: So Let Us Begin With - A Burst of Radioactivity
- Chapter 4: Breakfast at the Hôtel de Ville
- Chapter 5: Mother's Got a Headache
- Chapter 6: A Telephone Call
- Chapter 7: Trying to Get Through
- Chapter 8: Bringing to Life
- Chapter 9: Scene in a Car Park
- Chapter 10: A Summons from Afar
- Chapter 11: Return of the Citronellas
- Chapter 12: So, Starlady Sandra
- Chapter 13: Breakfast Time
- Chapter 14: Under the War Memorial
- Chapter 15: Lying in the Shade
- Chapter 16: Truth Being Stranger Than Fiction
- Chapter 17: Chew You Up and Spit You Out
- Chapter 18: Tell Me About Your Wife
- Chapter 19: Where Will We Live?
- Chapter 20: The Unclassed
- Chapter 21: How's Your Pains?
- Chapter 22: A Certain Rhythm
- Chapter 23: Highs and Lows
- Chapter 24: A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
- Appendices
- I: Alison's Story: A Libation of Blood
- II: Jennifer's Story: Come On, Everyone!
- III: Jude's Story: GUP - or Falling in Love in Helsinki
- Copyright
- 06 - LIFE FORCE
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Dedication
- Marion
- Nora
- Marion
- Nora
- Marion
- Nora
- Marion
- Nora
- Marion
- Nora
- Copyright
- Contents
- 07 - LITTLE SISTERS
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Copyright
- Contents
- 08 - MOON OVER MINNEAPOLIS
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Contents
- Stories of Working Life
- Subject to Diary
- I Do What I Can and I Am What I Am
- The Year of the Green Pudding
- Four Tales from Abroad
- Ind Aff
- A Visit from Johannesburg
- Au Pair
- How I Am is How You Are
- Tales of the New Age
- Down the Clinical Disco
- Pumpkin Pie
- Sharon Loves Darren
- Stories for Christmas
- Who Goes Where?
- The Search for Mother Christmas
- Three Tales of Country Life
- A Move to the Country
- Chew You Up and Spit You Out
- The Day the World Came to Somerset
- As Told to Miss Jacobs
- A Gentle Tonic Effect
- Moon Over Minneapolis
- Un Crime Maternel
- A Pattern of Cats
- Copyright
- 09 - POLARIS
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Contents
- Polaris
- Delights of France or Horrors of the Road
- The Sad Life of the Rich
- Christmas Lists - A Seasonal Story
- And Then Turn Out the Light
- The Bottom Line and the Sharp End
- In the Great War
- Birthday!
- The School Run
- Who?
- Oh Mary Don't You Cry Any More
- Redundant! or The Wife's Revenge
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
- 10 - PRAXIS
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Copyright
- Contents
- 11 - SPLITTING
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Dedication
- Part 1: A Perforated House
- Chapter 1: Edwin's Divorce Petition
- Chapter 2: The Velcro That Is Marriage
- Chapter 3: Lady Rice's Sea Of Sorrow
- Chapter 4: Initial Transformations
- Chapter 5: Office Business
- Chapter 6: Angel Is Born
- Chapter 7: History
- Chapter 8: Anthea In The Linen Room
- Chapter 9: Jelly At Work
- Chapter 10: Post Coital
- Chapter 11: Alimony As Justice
- Chapter 12: The Perforated Personality
- Chapter 13: Breaking Out
- Chapter 14: Angel's Outing
- Part 2: An Attempt At Diversion
- Chapter 1: Family Attack
- Chapter 2: The Wicked And The Good
- Chapter 3: Tully Toffener And His Powers
- Chapter 4: Welcome To Our Wonderful World
- Chapter 5: No Grand-Daughter Of Mine
- Chapter 6: Trouble Brewing
- Chapter 7: Closer To Congo
- Chapter 8: At Livermore Gate
- Chapter 9: Sara Attempts To Visit Her Grandmother
- Chapter 10: Scenes From Wendy's Life
- Chapter 11: A Property Worth Having
- Chapter 12: Edwin's Offer
- Chapter 13: Lady Rice On Her Alter Egos
- Chapter 14: A Curse From The Past
- Chapter 15: An Unbelievable Narrator
- Chapter 16: Ajax Is Born
- Part 3: Ajax's Aga Saga
- Chapter 1: Angelica First Brings Edwin Home
- Chapter 2: How They Told Edwin's Father
- Chapter 3: The Wedding
- Chapter 4: Lady Rice, One Year Into Her Marriage
- Chapter 5: Lady Rice, Three Years Into Her Marriage
- Chapter 6: Lady Rice, Eight Years Into Her Marriage
- Chapter 7: Trouble In The Group
- Chapter 8: More
- Chapter 9: Dinner Party
- Chapter 10: Morituri Te Salutant
- Part 4: Houses Disinhabited
- Chapter 1: Tensions
- Chapter 2: A Gust Of Chilly Wind
- Chapter 3: A Mother Returns
- Chapter 4: A Sniff Of Skin
- Chapter 5: Official Business
- Chapter 6: Angel Goes Home
- Chapter 7: A Short Visit To Mrs White
- Chapter 8: Dilapidation
- Chapter 9: Renovation
- Chapter 10: Perforation
- Part 5: Una's Happy Boys And Girls
- Chapter 1: A Menu Of Permutations
- Chapter 2: Touting Talent
- Chapter 3: Restoration
- Chapter 4: Unification
- Chapter 5: A House Revealed
- Acknowledgement
- Copyright
- Contents
- 12 - THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAY
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 37
- Chapter 38
- Chapter 39
- Chapter 40
- Chapter 41
- Chapter 42
- Chapter 43
- Chapter 44
- Chapter 45
- Chapter 46
- Chapter 47
- Chapter 48
- Chapter 49
- Chapter 50
- Chapter 51
- Chapter 52
- Chapter 53
- Chapter 54
- Chapter 55
- Copyright
- Contents
- 13 - THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- The Wages of Sin
- The Pleasures of Adultery
- Dinner
- Dinner Time
- Chomp, Chomp, Grittle-Grax, Gone!
- Facing the Day
- By Accident on Purpose
- Cough, Cough, Wheeze, Gasp
- Love Your Enemy
- Justifications
- Living Rough
- Bargains
- Redemption
- Improvement
- Attempts at Seduction
- Doing it all Wrong
- Washing Away the Stains
- Shock
- Interlude
- Second Home
- Driven Mad
- Cough, Cough, Cough Again
- Traumas
- Bright and Purposeful
- Bargains
- Gratitude-Schmatitude
- Submission
- Seduction
- Hi, Dad!
- Interims
- Praxis
- Human Sacrifice
- Resolutions
- Copyright
- Contents
- 14 - THE RULES OF LIFE
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Copyright
- Contents
- 15 - THE SHRAPNEL ACADEMY
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Copyright
- Contents
- 16 - WICKED WOMEN
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Contents
- Tales of Wicked Women
- End of the Line
- Run and Ask Daddy If He Has Any More Money
- In the Great War (II)
- Tales of Wicked Men
- Wasted Lives
- Love Amongst the Artists
- Leda and the Swan
- Tales of Wicked Children
- Tale of Timothy Bagshott
- Valediction
- From the Other Side
- Through a Dustbin, Darkly
- A Good Sound Marriage
- Of love, Pain and Good Cheer
- Pains
- A Question of Timing
- Red on Black
- Going to the Therapist
- Santa Claus's New Clothes
- Baked Alaska
- The Pardoner
- Bibliographical Note
- Copyright
- 17 - WORST FEARS
- Cover
- Welcome Page
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Copyright
- Contents
- About this Omnibus
- Also by Fay Weldon
- About Fay Weldon
- Reviews
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
- Contents
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