Death of a she devil - Fay Weldon

In Fay Weldon's 1983 classic, The Life and Loves of a She Devil, women fought men for power and won. But in 2018, the fight continues on a new front...

Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is eighty-four and keen to retire. She has worked hard to make the world as she wants it: women triumphant, men submissive. Now she is tired. Her business is done. The mantle of power and influence is up for grabs.

Who can take up the role? Valerie Valeria, hot-shot millennial and Ruth's PA, is ready and eager to inherit...

After hard times and odd jobs as a lone parent, Fay Weldon became one of the top advertising copywriters of her generation. She moved to TV drama (writing the pilot episode of the iconic series Upstairs Downstairs) then turned to novels - including the classic The Life and Loves of a She Devil and The Cloning of Joanna May. Fay's sequence of novels about the Dilberne family, which encompasses her Love and Inheritance trilogy and Before the War, draws to a close with this final instalment, After the Peace. Fay's been made a CBE for services to literature and she's currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

'Elegantly written, sharply perceptive and fantastically good fun'
Daily Mail

'She's a queen of words. A tribal elder'
Caitlin Moran

'Funny, waspish and acute ... A fierce retrospective on the achievements of the women's movement - and its cost - and a defiant hurrah for grumpy old women'
The Times

'One of our very best writers'
The Sunday Times

'A brilliant black comedy'
Mail on Sunday Event magazine

'Fay has been incredibly vocal about transgender issues, and her new book features her trademark black humour - and some shocking twists'
Closer

'A bawdy controversial read'
Woman & Home

'It's good to have Fay Weldon back, poking the hornet's nest of modern feminism with her sly eye'
Daily Express

'Weldon's amused defiance is irresistible'
Mail on Sunday.

'Scalpel-sharp and laceratingly funny'
Good Housekeeping.