AUTO DA FAY: A Feminist Icon’s Memoir of Cultural History and a Turbulent Literary Career - Softcover

Weldon, Fay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007109938 ISBN 13: 9780007109937

Publisher: Flamingo, 2009

Synopsis

The one and only Fay Weldon tells the story of her turbulent and controversial life.

From the 1930s to the 2000s, Fay Weldon has seen and lived our times. As a child in New Zealand, young and poor in London, unmarried mother, wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, anti-feminist, spag-bol-cook, winer-and-diner, there are few waterfronts that she hasn’t covered, few battles she hasn’t fought. An icon to many, a thorn-in-the-flesh to others, she has never failed to excite, madden, or interest. Her life and times cover love, sex, babies, blokes, poverty, work, politics, and not a few Very Famous Names.

Moving from New Zealand to London to Scotland, from the UK to points east and west, Weldon has sipped, gulped, and sometimes spat out the things that make us what we are today.

About this title

About the Author

Fay Weldon (1931 – 2023) overcame hard times and odd jobs as a lone parent, before becoming one of the top advertising copywriters of her generation. She moved into TV drama (writing the pilot episode of the iconic series Upstairs, Downstairs in 1971) then turned to novels – including the Booker-shortlisted Praxis (1978) and the feminist classic The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983). Fay was a Professor of Writing at Bath Spa University and was made a CBE for services to literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Flamingo
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007109938
• ISBN 13: 9780007109937
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384