Rhode Island Blues

“…Fay Weldon transports her wry wit, trenchant observational powers, and sublimely snappy prose to this side of the Atlantic….” — Elle

Smart, sexy, and infinitely charming, Rhode Island Blues tells the story of Sophia Moore, a loveless and guarded thirty-four-year-old film editor in London who believes that her only living relative is her stormy and wild grandmother Felicity. Troubled by her mother’s long-ago suicide and her father’s abandonment, Sophia overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues a flat sexual affair with the famous director of her latest film. But when she travels to Rhode Island to help Felicity settle into a retirement centre, she begins to unravel mysteries about her family history while Felicity learns to gamble, falls in love, and uncovers the truth about the centre’s evil nurse Dawn. A hilarious tale of family secrets, nursing-home high jinks, and late-life love, Rhode Island Blues is Fay Weldon at her witty best.