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Title: The Life and Loves of a She Devil
Condition: New
EAN: 9780340589359
ISBN: 9780340589359
Publisher: Sceptre
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 16/02/1995
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 128mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 182g
Author: Fay Weldon
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0340589353
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Release Year: 1995
Description:

'ONE OF OUR VERY BEST WRITERS' Sunday Times

'A tour de force'
The Times

'Intoxicating'
Daily Telegraph

'Devilishly delightful'
New York Times Book Review

'Beautifully and compellingly written'
Sunday Express

'Audacious'
Times Literary Supplement

THE BESTSELLING CLASSIC TALE OF A WOMAN SCORNED, FROM A MUCH-LOVED BRITISH AUTHOR


Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish.

Rather the opposite in fact - simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy that she becomes truly diabolic. Within weeks she has burnt down the family home, collected the insurance, made love to the local drunk and embarked on a course of destruction and revenge.

A blackly comic satire of the war of the sexes, The Life and Loves of a She Devil is the fantasy of the wronged woman made real.


PRAISE FOR FAY WELDON

'She's a Queen of Words'
Caitlin Moran

'A national treasure'
Literary Review

'The literary equivalent of a stiff drink, a dip in the Atlantic in January, a pep talk by a mildly sadistic coach'
New York Times

'Times have changed and Weldon is one of the people who have changed them'
The Times

'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature'
Harper's Bazaar

'Fay Weldon's voice is as unmistakeable as her acerbic wit'
Financial Times

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