Books by Fay Weldon
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review 1: It's really too bad these three books weren't just one long big potboiler; I thought the quality (I use that term very, very lightly) suffered by the end and felt almost like a treatise rather than a book. Connecting the three together maybe would have helped retain some of the...
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review 1: This was an intriguing read and it is narrated from the viewpoint of an 80 year old woman writer named Frances. She spent and borrowed money like it was going out of fashion in the good times and carried on spending but it was too difficult to borrow in the bad times and guess wh...
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review 1: Incredibly hilarious sendup of turn of the century (1899) English society and the gaping differences between the classes. Think "Upstairs, Downstairs" (which she wrote the first episode). Whether in the elite or working class, all the characters have their noses in the air here. ...
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review 1: This is the second book in the trilogy and the Hedleigh/Dilberne aristocratic family. As with the first, I had a hard time liking the characters because most of the were just cold and rude when dealing with society. I did warm up a little to Lady Isobel, the Countess of Dilbern...
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review 1: This book is the best Weldon novel in years - styled as an octogenarian might write her mishmash of memoir and fiction - and confusing the distinction between them. Sometimes repetitive in recalling her complicated past (as if possible dementia is setting in). When she thinks she...
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review 1: Comprei este livro há pouco tempo na Feira do Livro. Com um titulo intrigante, uma capa fofinha, e uma descrição que prometia risadas, não resisti em comprar... Ainda para mais estando apenas a 2€!! Preferia não ter comprado.Verdade seja dita, foi a historia mais estapafúrdia que...