Fay Weldon
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Puffball Summit Books First American Edition, 1980 Published in Great Britain by Hodder and Stoughton, 1980
From the book jacket: Fay Weldon's reputation is growing all the time, and in England her new novel, Puffball, is her most successful book to date. Readers of Fay Weldon know that you can always count on her for surprise, and in Puffball she is at her ironic and outrageous best as she tells us a tale of witchcraft and childbirth. Liffey and Richard move from their chic London apartment to a quaint rose-covered cottage because Liffey insists. Their neighbors, Mabs and Tucker, are delighted when Richard petulantly abandons Liffey to pursue his career in London and they set out with energetic spite to teach their city friend a lesson. Whether Liffey becomes pregnant from that lesson or by Richard remains to be seen, but Mabs believes that the baby in Liffey should rightfully be in her. Enraged, Mabs begins casting spells over her unsuspecting and naīve victim. And all the wile Liffey's baby grows and grows until it, too, becomes a character in Ms. Weldon's unique novel. By turns hilarious and frightening, Puffball tells us that Nature is cheerfully determined that life will go on - no matter who her friends or enemies may be. Bio from the book jacket: Fay Weldon lives in Somerset, England, with her husband and three of her four sons. She has written plays and many television scripts, and she is the author of Down Among the Women, Female Friends, Remember Me, Words of Advice and most recently Praxis, which Michael Ratcliffe, writing in the London Times, called "one of the most single-minded and brilliant English novels in recent years."

Puffball
Summit Books
First American Edition, 1980
Published in Great Britain by Hodder and Stoughton, 1980

From the book jacket:

Fay Weldon's reputation is growing all the time, and in England her new novel, Puffball, is her most successful book to date. Readers of Fay Weldon know that you can always count on her for surprise, and in Puffball she is at her ironic and outrageous best as she tells us a tale of witchcraft and childbirth.

Liffey and Richard move from their chic London apartment to a quaint rose-covered cottage because Liffey insists. Their neighbors, Mabs and Tucker, are delighted when Richard petulantly abandons Liffey to pursue his career in London and they set out with energetic spite to teach their city friend a lesson. Whether Liffey becomes pregnant from that lesson or by Richard remains to be seen, but Mabs believes that the baby in Liffey should rightfully be in her. Enraged, Mabs begins casting spells over her unsuspecting and naīve victim. And all the wile Liffey's baby grows and grows until it, too, becomes a character in Ms. Weldon's unique novel.

By turns hilarious and frightening, Puffball tells us that Nature is cheerfully determined that life will go on - no matter who her friends or enemies may be.

Bio from the book jacket:

Fay Weldon lives in Somerset, England, with her husband and three of her four sons. She has written plays and many television scripts, and she is the author of Down Among the Women, Female Friends, Remember Me, Words of Advice and most recently Praxis, which Michael Ratcliffe, writing in the London Times, called "one of the most single-minded and brilliant English novels in recent years."

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