Splitting - Hardcover

Weldon, Fay

3.31

219 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087113599X ISBN 13: 9780871135995

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1995

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The author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil offers an incisive, witty portrait of Angelica, whose divorce splinters her personality into several bickering interior voices, including wronged Lady Rice, clever Jelly White, and promiscuous Angel. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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‘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

‘Stirs wit and sorrow into a literary cauldron of mischief, power and justice.’
She

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Jelly White, secretary extraordinaire; Lady Rice, soon to be divorced wife of Sir Edwin; Angel, promiscuous to a degree; Angelica, ex-kinky virgin who gave birth to them all...

The events in Fay Weldon's latest novel are set in motion when Sir Edwin Rice institutes divorce proceedings against his wife and she, agonised, disguises herself and takes a job as secretary to his divorce lawyer, libidinous Brian Moss.

Daring and deliciously shocking Fay Weldon's 'Splitting' is a riveting listen!

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