Book description
With her inimitable wit and insight, Fay Weldon offers her wisdom on
the subject of female happiness and how to achieve it.
What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time,
so stop worrying.
In this book, Fay Weldon offers wisdom gleaned from a remarkable life,
a brilliantly successful career and a fair share of trouble. She
explores what makes women happy; how our lives, jobs, families, bodies,
desires, morals and responsibilities affect that happiness, and what we
can do to lead more rounded and desirable lives. As she delivers the
verdicts, she also delivers short stories, or perhaps parables, to prove
her points. To be good, she concludes, is to be happy, to be happy is to
be good. The Victorians had it right.
A blend of philosophy, storytelling and self-help, this inspirational
work shows Weldon at the peak of her creative powers, brisk, stylish and
entertaining. 'Wise, witty and barbed.' Sunday Times
'Weldon always has interesting things to say about the battle of the
sexes and there is plenty of wry humour along the way.' Mail on Sunday
'It's all here: orgasms, hen nights, coveting best friends' husbands,
the joy of friends, sisters bearing gifts and caramelised bananas…This
is brilliant to dip into when you're annoyed with the world.' Eve
'If you want the truth about the man-woman thing, forget all those
cloying self-help books and read Fay Weldon.' New York Times Fay
Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels
include 'The Life and Loves of a She-Devil', 'Puffball', 'Big Women' and
'Rhode Island Blues'. She has also published her autobiography 'Auto da
Fay'. She lives in Dorset.
