Benefits - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380631644 ISBN 13: 9780380631643

Synopsis

It is summer... a heat wave... tense, uneasy days in the city. There are ominous signs of political turbulance in the dying years of the twentieth century. Welfare benefits are under attack, but women are fighting back, using unorthodox weapons. Lynn Byers does not accept the government's demand for a return to 'womanly duties'. As desperate politicians use increasingly savage methods of control, she can no longer stand aside to watch. A classic of women's fiction.

About this title

Review:

A successful and upsetting novel --Sunday Times

Intelligent and energetic book... (which) works persuasively --Hermione Lee, Observer

About the Author:

Zoe Fairbairns is the author of Other Names, Stand We At Last, Here Today, Closing and Daddy's Girls. A book of her short stories, How Do You Pronounce Nulliparous? is published by Five Leaves. She is currently working on a book about writing short fiction.

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 0380631644
• ISBN 13: 9780380631643
• Binding: Paperback