Secret Pain of a She-Devil She Is Always Controversial and Usually Outspoken. So Why Is Fay Weldon, Author of 26 Novels, so Cagey When It Comes to Talking About Her Own Eventful Life - Even When Writing Her Autobiography?
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As you approach the grey stone house where Fay Weldon lives on the edge of a small Dorset town, it looks neglected. No flowers have been planted outside. There is just gravel, grass and bushes.
In fact, the house isn't at all homely until you reach the kitchen, which has a big table to sit and chat around and, of course, an Aga.See the full content of this document
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Secret Pain of a She-Devil She Is Always Controversial and Usually Outspoken. So Why Is Fay Weldon, Author of 26 Novels, so Cagey When It Comes to Talking About Her Own Eventful Life - Even When Writing Her Autobiography?
This morning, however, the Aga isn't working, and when the front door is opened to me by Nick Fox, the novelist's husband (and manager), he tells me baldly that he was hoping I would be the boiler man.
"Life is one long Aga saga these days. Not really what you would expect of me," Weldon later confides, when 3pm comes round and there is still no sign of the lunch her husband is cooking. You certainly don't expect Aga sagas from Fay Weldon, the woman who has written 26 novels - clever, funny, political and feminist works.She is the woman who, as we learnt from the first instalment of...See the full content of this document