Title: Before the war
Description: "1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's child and will die in childbirth in just a few months... Fay Weldon, with one eye on the present and one on the past, offers Vivien's fate, along with that of London between World War I and World War II. This is a city fizzing with change, full of flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked soldiers, and aristocrats clinging onto the past. Inventive, warm, playful, and full of Weldon's trademark ironic edge, Before the War is a spellbinding novel from one of the best writers of our time"--
Subjects: Single women, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Single women, fiction, New York Times reviewed, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, historical, general, Single women -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, London (England) -- Fiction, FICTION -- Historical, FICTION -- Literary, Historical fiction, Literary fiction, England -- London
Places: London (England)