Down Among the Women: The Fat Woman's Joke, Down Among The Women, Growing Rich, And Darcy's Utopia (Cassandra Editions Ser.)

By: Fay Weldon

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Synopsis: With her eye for the unending power plays between the genders, Fay Weldon chronicles two decades in the lives of three generations of women—and has a devilish good time doing it &“Down among the women. What a place to be!&” So begins Fay Weldon&’s novel, opening onto 1950s London, where Wanda, a former radical who has left her husband, has raised her daughter Scarlet to be as tough and independent as she is. But twenty-year-old Scarlet has already had one abortion, and is about to become a single mother to the child she&’ll call Byzantia. The novel also follows the lives of Scarlet&’s friends: Sylvia, a born victim; respectable Jocelyn, hopelessly trapped in her dull, bourgeois existence; Audrey, who finally breaks out of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant, and doomed. Over the course of twenty years, they will discover it&’s never too late to become the women they are meant to be.