Down Among the Women

Down Among the Women Synopsis

With her eye for the unending power plays between the genders, Fay Weldon chronicles two decades in the lives of three generations of womenand has a devilish good time doing it ';Down among the women. What a place to be!'So begins Fay Weldon's novel, opening onto 1950s London, where Wanda, a former radical who has left her husband, has raised her daughter Scarlet to be as tough and independent as she is. But twenty-year-old Scarlet has already had one abortion, and is about to become a single mother to the child she'll call Byzantia. The novel also follows the lives of Scarlet's friends: Sylvia, a born victim; respectable Jocelyn, hopelessly trapped in her dull, bourgeois existence; Audrey, who finally breaks out of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant, and doomed. Over the course of twenty years, they will discover it's never too late to become the women they are meant to be.