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Rediscover the brilliance of Down Among the Women in the Mermaid Collection - timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant today's readers. A classic from beloved national treasure Fay Weldon sees four women break the shackles of patriarchy and domesticity in 1950s London, from the author of The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil With a foreword by Jenny Colgan 'Down among the women. What a place to be!' So says Wanda, a former radical who left her husband and raised her daughter Scarlet to be as liberated as she. But twenty-year-old Scarlet, with an abortion already behind her, is about to discover real liberation - as a single mother in Fifties' London. Yet Scarlet's not alone. Meet her friends: Sylvia, the born victim; respectable Jocelyn, willingly trapped in a dull, bourgeois marriage; Audrey, bristling to break free of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant - and very doomed. Over the course of twenty years, from the Fifties to the Seventies, Scarlet, Wanda and their friends will wonder if they can ever become the women they always dreamed of being. Praise for Fay Weldon: 'A national treasure' Literary Review 'Wickedly stylish. Bursting with intelligence and fire' Daily Telegraph 'Prolific and provocative, Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists' Time Out 'A queen of words' Caitlin Moran
| EAN: | 9781405982641 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 11.09.2025 |
| Titel der Reihe: | The Mermaid Collection## |
| Autoren: | Weldon, Fay |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 400 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Classics |
| Keyword: | classics; historical fiction; feminist book; feminism; feminist books for women; inspiring books for women; women in history; historical fiction kindle books; historical novels; novels for women; classic books; books for mum; books for her; books for older women; penguin classics; books for young women; puffball; the cloning of joanna may; upstairs downstairs; the lives and loves of a she devil; rosamunde pilcher; daphne du maurier; dorothy baker; shirley jackson; simone de beauvoir; elizabeth jane howard; anya seton; margaret kennedy |
| Fachschema: | London / Roman, Erzählung~Fünfziger Jahre / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Klassische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch~Familienleben~Historischer Roman~Klassische Lyrik und Dichtung vor dem 20. Jahrhundert |
| Imprint-Titels: | Penguin |
| Länge: | 198 mm |