Big Women

Fay Weldon’s new novel blasts into the Brave Now World which women – and their men – fought for, agonised over, and thought they would inherit.

There’s the feminist publishing house, Medusa, founded one balmy evening in a flurry of argument, peace-making naked dancing. There’s noisy, darlingish, ‘l am the only right thinking feminist there is. It’s all the others who are out of step.’ And Alice, the academic, the philosopher, the – eventually — Glastonbury witch. And Nancy, boring, sensible Nancy who is 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.