Book description
Meet Frances, one-time national treasure, former famous writer...
and Fay Weldon's might-have-been younger sister. It's 2013. Fay has
long since emigrated (wouldn't you, if your imaginary sister stole
your future?), and eighty-year-old Frances, her glory days gone, is
savouring a slice of National Meat Loaf in her once-magnificent house.
Communism's dead, capitalism's fallen, and now government bailiffs are
banging on her door... How did it come to this? When did CiviCams and
powdered egg replace gossipy dinners and chocolate mousse? As Frances
tries to make sense of her story, fact and fiction begin to implode.
What secrets are her family hiding? Is her skunk-smoking grandson
plotting revolution upstairs? And just what makes National Meat Loaf
so tasty?
