Splitting - Softcover

Weldon, Fay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006550061 ISBN 13: 9780006550068

Publisher: Flamingo, 1996

Synopsis

A marriage its breakdown and a perforated heroine: one woman, many faces, many personalities and more emerging …..Witty, sexy and funny, Fay Weldon uses a sharp but healing laser to re-lay out notions of love, marriage and the self.

A marriage, its breakdown, and a perforated heroine: one woman, many faces, many personalities, and more emerging: a crumbling house, and the rooms of that house (which in our dreams are aspects of the self). Any more trauma and it’s all over!

Sir Edwin Rice has decided to divorce Lady Angelica, ex-rock star. She has behaved intolerably. He petitions the Court to set him free. Angelica fights back. She is not what he thinks – but then what woman ever is? Angelica takes a job as secretary to her husband’s divorce solicitor – only to find one false personality leading to another. How is she to find herself: amongst good wife Angelica, Angel the tart, Jelly the secretary, all-male Ajax, Angela the hopeless – and only one body, albeit a beautiful one, to go round between the lot of them?

About this title

About the Author

Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include ‘The Life and Loves of a She-Devil’, ‘Puffball’, ‘Big Women’ and ‘Rhode Island Blues’. She has also published her autobiography ‘Auto da Fay’. Her most recent novel was the critically acclaimed ‘She May Not Leave’. She lives in Dorset.

From the Back Cover

“Never before has the idea of having a split personality seemed quite so appealing.”
LITERARY REVIEW

“This is a jewel of a book, sparkling, flawless and precisely faceted. Weldon shows all the confidence and refinement of an artist at the height of her powers.”
CELIA BRAYFIELD, 'Sunday Express'

“No matter how duff you are feeling, it would be hard to read this novel and not feel a new woman (or even a new man?) afterwards. 'Splitting' is a shout of triumph about a woman who does more than survive, and its anger is tempered by mirth. Weldon has reinvented herself as a modern Restoration comic. Her story has a seventeenth-century savagery, witty and calculating sexuality.”
OBSERVER

“Bright, witty, comic and perceptive … in the great boisterous, picaresque tradition of Fielding, Cervantes, Dickens and John Irving's 'Garp'”
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

“Ms Weldon reinstates irony to its rightful high place in literature”
JOHN IRVING

“Sexy in a detached, practical sort of way”
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

“Stirs wit and sorrow in a literary cauldron of mischief, power and justice”
SHE

“Weldon is at her wicked best in 'Splitting'”
VOGUE

Edition details

• Publisher: Flamingo
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006550061
• ISBN 13: 9780006550068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272