Fay Weldon
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Rhode Island Blues London: Flamingo (HarperCollins) First British Edition, 2000 Published in the U.S by Atlantic Monthly, 2000 Cover art by Max Schindler
From the book jacket: Weldon on top form; Weldon tackling love, sex, ageing, death; Weldon at her wittiest best; Weldon unparalleled. This exceptional novel tell of Sophia, a thirty-four-year-old film editor living in Soho, and her only living relation (she thinks), her grandmother Felicity, an eighty-three-year-old widow (several times) living in smart Connecticut. Sophia is torn between her delight in her freedom and a nagging desire for the family ties which everyone else grumbles about: casual sex is all very well, but who do you spend Christmas with? Her current bedmate seems to be in love with a glamorous Hollywood film star (not that Sophia cares, of course: she's a New Woman); her mad mother is dead. All she has is Felicity. But Felicity is not your average granny. Temperamental, sophisticated, chic (and alarmingly eccentric), she has seen much of life, love and sex and is totally prepared to see more. Even if it is from a twilight home (The Golden Bowl Complex for Creative Retirement) ... Twilight is not at all Felicity's idea of fun; and quite possibly she ahs more idea of fun than her granddaughter. As the two women's stories unravel, the past rears up with all its grimness and irony: but points the way to the future which may redeem them both. Bio from the book jacket: Fay Weldon was born in England and raised in New Zealand. She took degrees in Economics and Psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and after a decade of odd jobs and hard times began writing fiction. She is now well known as a novelist, screen writer and cultural journalist. Her novels include The Life and Times of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May, Affliction and Worst Fears. Big Women, a dramatised history of feminism, was screened by Channel 4, and she has several collections of short stories to her name. She has recently published a collection of essays, Godless in Eden. She lives in London.

Rhode Island Blues
London: Flamingo (HarperCollins)
First British Edition, 2000
Published in the U.S by Atlantic Monthly, 2000
Cover art by Max Schindler

From the book jacket:
Weldon on top form; Weldon tackling love, sex, ageing, death; Weldon at her wittiest best; Weldon unparalleled.
This exceptional novel tell of Sophia, a thirty-four-year-old film editor living in Soho, and her only living relation (she thinks), her grandmother Felicity, an eighty-three-year-old widow (several times) living in smart Connecticut. Sophia is torn between her delight in her freedom and a nagging desire for the family ties which everyone else grumbles about: casual sex is all very well, but who do you spend Christmas with? Her current bedmate seems to be in love with a glamorous Hollywood film star (not that Sophia cares, of course: she's a New Woman); her mad mother is dead. All she has is Felicity.
But Felicity is not your average granny. Temperamental, sophisticated, chic (and alarmingly eccentric), she has seen much of life, love and sex and is totally prepared to see more. Even if it is from a twilight home (The Golden Bowl Complex for Creative Retirement) ... Twilight is not at all Felicity's idea of fun; and quite possibly she ahs more idea of fun than her granddaughter.
As the two women's stories unravel, the past rears up with all its grimness and irony: but points the way to the future which may redeem them both.
Bio from the book jacket:
Fay Weldon was born in England and raised in New Zealand. She took degrees in Economics and Psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and after a decade of odd jobs and hard times began writing fiction. She is now well known as a novelist, screen writer and cultural journalist. Her novels include The Life and Times of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May, Affliction and Worst Fears. Big Women, a dramatised history of feminism, was screened by Channel 4, and she has several collections of short stories to her name. She has recently published a collection of essays, Godless in Eden. She lives in London.

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