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Big Women (Paperback)

by Fay Weldon (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New edition edition (14 Jul 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006550975
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006550976
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 724,815 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A major Channel 4 tie-in, this is the story of women when they were wimmin: of that blossoming in seventies England of hope, freedom, equality and sisterhood; and of what happened next! Big Women is the tale of Medusa, a feminist publishing house founded one balmy evening at sedate Chalcot Crescent in a flurry of argument, peace-making and naked dancing. The novel is everything and more we expect from Fay Weldon, not just a work of literature but an energising drop into the pool of social complacency -- a feisty, no-holds-barred portrait of four women's attempts and failures to create a new life. There's Layla, noisy, darlingish, high-profile. Alice, the academic, the philosopher, the -- eventually -- Glastonbury witch. Nancy: boring, sensible Nancy, the only one with any business nous. And Stephanie, the one who leaves her husband and children to embrace politics, men, other women! Their stories are intertwined with twenty years of all our lives -- blissful, rage-filled, treacherous, redemptive.


About the Author

Fay Weldon was born in England and raised in New Zealand. Her work is translated into most world languages.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Very readable if a little irritating at times, 5 Jul 1999
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Big Women follows the four founding sisters of a women's publishing company called Medusa (sounds a bit too much like Virago perhaps) from the birth of the company in a naked drunken dance session through to its eventual collapse as a result of some very 'unsisterly' exploitation of the family of a suicide victim. Undeniably it's a bit predictable and the characters are sometimes a bit too 'cartoon-like'. It also suffers from some of Weldon's rather irritating use of the present tense - Layla moves out Cheyne Walk; Medusa now employs a man'. But, on the plus side, its not a bad romp through some of the highs and lows of the women's movement - from free love and dungarees to power dressing senior executives with a bit of a stop over in the middle at Greenham.At the end of the day one is left wondering if it was all really worth the bother

I didn't see the Channel 4 adaptation but got the feeling when reading that the whole thing was set up for being a screenplay first and a novel second.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fay Weldon at her best, 6 Dec 2003
This review is from: Big Women (Hardcover)
Using the tale of a feminist publishing house from its inception in the 1960s as a vehicle for the evolution of gender issues, Fay Weldon has written a story which will engage all readers, but will especially appeal to those who supported pro-active feminism in one way or another, and who can laugh at themselves. This is not a feminist novel, but a novel about feminism. It is candid; it is fair; but it does not treat its subject matter gently. It's a very good read.
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