Down among the women
By: Fay Weldon
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781781857984; 9781784080747
Subjects: Nineteen seventies; Fiction; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); FICTION; General
Description: 'Down among the women. What a place to be!' Wanda has raised her daughter Scarlet to be as tough and independent as she is. When Scarlet finds herself a single parent at the age of twenty, she is frightened. Her friends are no happier: Sylvia, a born victim; respectable Jocelyn, hopelessly trapped in her dull, bourgeois existence; Audrey, who finally breaks out of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant, and doomed. Can these women break the straps of convention and become who they really want to be? Set in 1970s London, following the lives of a gro.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Welcome Page; Chapter 1: Wanda, Scarlet and Byzantia; Chapter 2: Ask Your Father; Chapter 3: A Certain Sunday; Chapter 4: Scarlet is Brought to Bed; Chapter 5: Susan is Selfish; Chapter 6: Problems and Solutions; Chapter 7: Scarlet Shows Off; Chapter 8: Scarlet Goes to Market; Chapter 9: On The Move; Chapter 10: Sorting Out; Chapter 11: Crucifixions; Chapter 12: Nice People; Chapter 13: Solutions; Chapter 14: Down Among The Women; Down Among the Women; Preview; About this Book; Reviews; Also by Fay Weldon; About the Author; An Invitation from the Publisher; Copyright; Contents.