Fay Weldon
Short Story Collections

A major collection of short stories from a glittering talented writer. Fay Weldon's work cannot be categorized as 'literary' or 'commercial': it is both, and much more besides.

Mothers and children, lovers and wives, carers and betrayers. Some characters struggle; some dance or fly; some try suicide or murder. They may resort of reason or unreason (wrestle those apart if you can). All of them make choices.

In 'Subject to Diary', Oriole Green, successful and forty, waits in a clinic for an abortion. She doesn't have time for a baby. Perhaps this is her last chance; perhaps she will refuse it.

In 'Pumpkin Pie', Antoinette slaves over someone else's hot stove while her family spends Thanksgiving without her. The poor work hard to the rich can eat well - what law of life could seem simpler?

And in a series of tales from the age of psychotherapy, four women in turn talk to the silent analyst: one who refuses to listen to her buried conscience; one whose envious twin prevents her from being wholly happy; one who has murdered her husband in the interested of her children; one whose cat is suffering from depression…

Deft, spare, and incisively intelligent, shot through with Fay Weldon's needling moral sense and vibrant humour, Moon Over Minneapolis is a deliciously challenging read.

Bio from the book jacket:

Fay Weldon was born in England, reared in New Zealand and educated in Scotland, where she too a degree in Economics and Psychology. After a decade of odd jobs and hard times she started writing, and now is well known as a novelist and screenwriter. Her novels include Female Friends, The Cloning of Joanna May, The Hearts and Lives of Men, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Darcy's Utopia, and are translated the world over. She is married with four children and divides her time between London and Somerset.

Stories included in this edition:

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 Clinial Disco
Pumpkin Pie
Sharon Loves Darren
Stories for Christmas
Who Goes There?
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