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Before the war / Fay Weldon.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF WELD	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781784082079 (paperback)
Classification	F WELD
Personal Name	Weldon, Fay
Title	Before the war / Fay Weldon.
Production & Copyright Details	London : Head of Zeus, 2016.
Production & Copyright Details	©2016.
Physical Description	298 pages ; 23 cm.
Content type	text
Summary Note	Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty-four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse in those times - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another's child, and will die in childbirth in just a few months... Fay Weldon, with one eye on the present and one on the past, offers Vivien's fate to the reader, along with that of London between the wars. This is a city fizzing with change, full of flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked soldiers and aristocrats clinging onto the past. Inventive, warm, playful and full of Weldon's trademark ironic edge, this is a spellbinding historical novel from one of the best novelists of our time.
Subject - Topical Term	Young women -- Fiction
	Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
	Single women -- Fiction
	Companionate marriage -- Fiction
	Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
	Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name	London (England) -- Fiction