Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 11 December 2008.
A story not of a wicked stepmother but more a wicked stepdaughter. Fay Weldon gets right to the heart of this dysfunctional family, making the hairs stand up on the back of your neck as you read and wait for the inevitable deterioration of relationships. Gripping and intoxicating stuff.
The wicked stepmother is a classic figure of literature. However, reality is all too often the reverse, with stepchildren using all their cunning to do down daddy's wife in a no-holds-barred fight to the death. Being on the receiving end of that kind of attack is no fun at all, as the heroine in this novel can tell you.
The wicked stepmother is a classic figure of literature. However, reality is all too often the reverse, with stepchildren using all their cunning to do down daddy's wife in a no-holds-barred fight to the death. Being on the receiving end of that kind of attack is no fun at all, as the heroine in this novel can tell you.
Fay Weldon is one of Britain's best loved and most respected authors. Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Fay Weldon was born on 22 September 1931. She was brought up in New Zealand and returned to the United Kingdom when she was ten. She read Economics and Psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and worked briefly for the Foreign Office in London, then as a journalist, before beginning a successful career as an advertising copywriter. She gave up her career in advertising, and began to write full-time. Her first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke, was published in 1967. Fay Weldon is a former member of both the Arts Council literary panel and the film and video panel of Greater London Arts. She was Chair of the Judges for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1983, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 1990. She was awarded a CBE in 2001. She lives in Dorset with her husband, the poet Nick Fox.
Fay Weldon got me through my teenage years and my twenties. I don't know what I would have done without her naughty, feisty heroines. I normally prefer the close third person narrative but her authorial voice is so wicked that it has a delicious character in its own right.
The wicked stepmother is a classic figure of literature. However, reality is all too often the reverse, with stepchildren using all their cunning to do down daddy's wife in a no-holds-barred fight to the death.
The Stepmother's Diary features in the following genres: Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Paperback, Hardback. £8.09, down from the £8.99 cover price. Temporarily Out Of Stock.
The Stepmother's Diary was written by Fay Weldon and published by Quercus an imprint of Quercus Publishing
The Stepmother's Diary has 294 pages
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