Fay Weldon

About the Author

Fay Weldon was born in England and raised in New Zealand, returning to the U.K. at age ten and later attending college at St. Andrews in Scotland. After several years as a successful advertising copywriter, Weldon began writing full-time and published her first novel in 1967. She has written over 20 novels, most recently After the Peace, which was published in October 2018. Weldon has also written extensively for television, radio, and stage and published works of nonfiction. In 2001, she was appointed to the CBE, a British order of chivalry. Weldon is the mother of four children and currently lives in England with her third husband.

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Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

The novel opens with an unnamed narrator writing a letter from Cairns, Australia to her eighteen-year-old niece, Alice. The narrator, who the reader learns at the end of the letter is named Fay, h... view guide