Auto Da FayThe acclaimed British author Fay Weldon turns her gimlet-eyed wit and keen eye on -- herself! In this wonderfully engaging autobiography, Fay looks back on her own life and times. As a child in New Zealand, as a poor girl in London, as an unmarried mother, wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, and winer-and-diner: there is little ground she's failed to cover. Brought up among women -- her intrepid mother, grandmother, and sister -- Weldon found men a mystery until the swinging-sixties London introduced her to the indecent, the hopeless, and the golden-footed. A central figure among the bohemian writers, artists, thinkers, and poets of the times, she has maintained this unique position through four turbulent decades. An icon to many, a thorn in the flesh to others, she has never failed to excite, madden, or interest. |
