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_aWeldon, Fay, _eauthor. _920912 |
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_aBefore the war / _cFay Weldon. |
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_aLondon : _bHead of Zeus, _c2016. |
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| 264 | 4 | _c©2016. | |
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_a298 pages ; _c22 cm. |
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_atext _btxt _2rdacontent. |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia. |
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_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier. |
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_aSpoils of war ; _v1. |
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| 520 | _aConsider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty-four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse in those times - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another's child, and will die in childbirth in just a few months... Fay Weldon, with one eye on the present and one on the past, offers Vivien's fate to the reader, along with that of London between the wars. This is a city fizzing with change, full of flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked soldiers and aristocrats clinging onto the past. Inventive, warm, playful and full of Weldon's trademark ironic edge, this is a spellbinding historical novel from one of the best novelists of our time. | ||
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_aAristocracy _zGreat Britain _vFiction. _963879 |
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_aInterpersonal relations _vFiction. _91359 |
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_aNineteen twenties _vFiction. _910592 |
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_aAristocracy (Social class) _zEngland _vFiction. _922000 |
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_aLondon (England) _xHistory _y20th century _vFiction. _92067 |
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_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft. _972 |
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_aWeldon, Fay. _tSpoils of war. _963881 |
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