Book description
A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant
contemporary writer.
'Watching Me, Watching You' was Fay Weldon's first collection of short
stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist,
sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony
and courage. A sense of sisterhood is one of the most important
qualities a woman may possess and its loss, as in one particular story,
'Alopecia', can bring tragedy. On the other hand, in 'Threnody', a
women's commune can be gently mocked, and the failings of the leading
characters are human rather than masculine.
Fay Weldon's observation is always wonderfully acute and 'Watching Me,
Watching You' is dominated throughout by her humour and intensity of
purpose, giving to these stories a marvellous strength and unity. 'Our
most powerful describer…' Cosmopolitan
'Compulsive…a mordant wit and staccato stylishness'. Daily Mail 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'. Her most recent novel was the critically acclaimed 'She May Not
Leave'. She lives in Dorset.
