Remember Me
by Fay Weldon
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Madeleine wants to love, be remembered, -and take revengeAbandoned by her husband, Jarvis, for a new wife and child, Madeleine is left alone with her troubled adolescent daughter, Hilary. By day, Madeleine tends (or doesn't tend) to Hilary, who is growing more difficult by the hour. By night, she entertains dark fantasies about Jarvis's second wife-Lily the Supplanter. And what of Margot, the doctor's wife, who had a one-night stand with Jarvis many moons ago? All are ripe for their show more comeuppance as Madeleine, with malice aforethought, orchestrates her revenge. In Remember Me, Fay Weldon plumbs show lessTags
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Everything you need to know about first and second wives, marriage, children and infidelity. Weldon writes in an interesting way and raises a number of issues about different relationships in life.
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Fay Weldon was born in Worcester, England on September 22, 1931. She read economics and psychology at the University of St. Andrews. She worked as a propaganda writer for the British Foreign Office and then as an advertising copywriter for various firms in London before making writing a full-time career. Her work includes over twenty novels, five show more collections of short stories, several children's books, non-fiction books, and a number of plays written for television, radio and the stage. Her collections of short stories include Mischief and Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide. She wrote a memoir entitled Auto Da Fay and non-fiction book entitled What Makes Women Happy. She wrote the pilot episode for the television series Upstairs Downstairs. Her first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke, was published in 1967. Her other novels include Praxis, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball, Rhode Island Blues, Mantrapped, She May Not Leave, The Spa Decameron, Habits of the House, Long Live the King, and The New Countess. Wicked Women won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She was awarded a CBE in 2001. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Remember Me
- Original publication date
- 1976
- First words
- Monday morning, six o'clock.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Which at least seemed to create some kind of consensus, for or against, because after that there was nothing but the wind to ruffle the grasses, and disturb the little gay pots of dried flowers on the more recent graves, and whatever trouble there was dispersed, and there was peace.
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