Before the War av Fay Weldon

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<p>Consider 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''. </p><p>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... </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p>