Fay Weldon
Short Story Collections


Nothing to Wear & Nowhere to Hide Flamingo (HarperCollins) First British Edition, 2002 Not yet published in the U.S.
From the book jacket: A spiky, feisty, hilarious collection of stories that expose women's clumsy, often doomed, sometimes miraculous, attempts to negotiate a smooth path through life. Abandoned wives remain as lingering presences in the homes of their ex-husbands' new girlfriends; beautiful young models find their sins exposed in the tabloids for all the world to see; middle-aged women get swept off their feet and into the criminal underworld by charismatic con men; young trophy wives get thrown in jail after over-exuberance on their private yachts; mothers beg their thirty-something career-minded daughters to freeze their eggs in the hope that they may yet have grandchildren. Bold, glamorous, sexy, unrepentant, Fay Weldon's heroines offer a quite unique view of the world as they face their trials without fear or trepedation. Both her legions of fans and new readers will be enthralled. Bio from the book jacket: Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include The Life and Times of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May, Affliction, Big Women and Rhode Island Blues. She lives in London. Stories included in this edition: Things That Go Bump in the Night Eyes in the Dark A Knife for Cutting Mangoes The Medium is the Message The Site The Devious and Delectable A Summer Person What the Papers Say Smoking Chimneys Percentage Trust Making Do How Donna Came to Win the Lottery Trophy Wife Life Like a Dog, Alone Well, I Said Making Good Freeze Eggs, Freeze Eggs! Cold, Wet Nose Wild Strawberries I. Boadicea How We Live Now Nothing to Wear Heaven Knows Living by the Small Print Queen Gertrude plc - a radio play

Nothing to Wear &
Nowhere to Hide
Flamingo (HarperCollins)
First British Edition, 2002
Not yet published in the U.S.

From the book jacket:
A spiky, feisty, hilarious collection of stories that expose women's clumsy, often doomed, sometimes miraculous, attempts to negotiate a smooth path through life.
Abandoned wives remain as lingering presences in the homes of their ex-husbands' new girlfriends; beautiful young models find their sins exposed in the tabloids for all the world to see; middle-aged women get swept off their feet and into the criminal underworld by charismatic con men; young trophy wives get thrown in jail after over-exuberance on their private yachts; mothers beg their thirty-something career-minded daughters to freeze their eggs in the hope that they may yet have grandchildren.
Bold, glamorous, sexy, unrepentant, Fay Weldon's heroines offer a quite unique view of the world as they face their trials without fear or trepedation. Both her legions of fans and new readers will be enthralled.
Bio from the book jacket:
Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include The Life and Times of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May, Affliction, Big Women and Rhode Island Blues. She lives in London.
Stories included in this edition:
Things That Go Bump in the Night

Eyes in the Dark
A Knife for Cutting Mangoes
The Medium is the Message
The Site
The Devious and Delectable

A Summer Person
What the Papers Say
Smoking Chimneys
Percentage Trust
Making Do

How Donna Came to Win the Lottery
Trophy Wife
Life Like a Dog, Alone
Well, I Said
Making Good

Freeze Eggs, Freeze Eggs!
Cold, Wet Nose
Wild Strawberries
I. Boadicea
How We Live Now

Nothing to Wear
Heaven Knows
Living by the Small Print
Queen Gertrude plc - a radio play

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