Fay Weldon’s thought-provoking portrayal of the shifting roles and personalities of one woman as she journeys from childhood to adulthood.
Abandoned by her father, raised by a mad mother and a half-mad sister, Praxis Duveen is a master of the art of survival. Her life, indeed, has been full: two marriages, both unsuccessful; a brief but profitable career as a prostitute; a little dabbling in incest; a mercy killing; and an inadvertent reign as both apostle and victim of the women’s movement.
Fay Weldon
About the Author
At the prize dinner, Fay Weldon’s speech about how badly publishers treated their writers was found so aggravating by one publisher that he walked over and punched her agent, Giles Gordon.