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Synopsis
This latest offering from critically acclaimed author Fay Weldon is a darkly comic romp through the minefields of friendship and feminism. On a balmy evening in 1971, five women meet in a cramped living room in the suburbs of London. Tired of their husbands and their own unsatisfying lives, they form the aptly named Medusa, a book publishing house founded on the principle of "getting even." With wry and savvy humor, Weldon weaves us through twenty years of these women's lives, as good intentions fall by the wayside and the hazards of their new politics, sex, and infidelity take their toll.
New York Times Book Review - Elizabeth Gleick
Throughout the novel, Weldon asks —and attempts to answer. . .was the women's movement really worth it? . . . .she toys with our preconceived notions. . . .we come to care about the fates of these women. . .both for the ideas they are meant to represent and for who they are.