Before the war
Weldon, Fay2016
Book
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.
Main title:
Before the war / Fay Weldon.
Author:
Weldon, Fay, author
Work:
Imprint:
London Head of Zeus, 2016.©2016.
Collation:
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Series title:
Spoils of War ; 1
ISBN:
97817840820629781784082079 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
Companionate marriage -- FictionInterpersonal relations -- FictionAristocracy (Social class) -- England -- FictionAristocracy -- Great Britain -- FictionYoung women -- FictionNineteen twenties -- FictionSingle women -- FictionMan-woman relationships -- FictionLondon (England) -- History -- 20th century -- FictionLondon (England) -- FictionHistorical fiction
BRN:
313386