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Sequel to The Life and Loves of a She Devil . In Weldon´s 1983 classic, women fought men for power and won. But now the fight continues on a new front. A modern twist on the battle of the sexes.

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In Fay Weldon´s 1983 classic, The Life and Loves of a She Devil , women fought men for power and won. But in 2018, the fight continues on a new front...

Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is eighty-four and keen to retire. She has worked hard to make the world as she wants it: women triumphant, men submissive. Now she is tired. Her business is done. The mantle of power and influence is up for grabs.

Who can take up the role? Valerie Valeria, hot-shot millennial and Ruth´s PA, is ready and eager to inherit...

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´Elegantly written, sharply perceptive and fantastically good fun´ Daily Mail .

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Weldon, Fay
After hard times and odd jobs as a lone parent, Fay Weldon became one of the top advertising copywriters of her generation. She moved to TV drama (writing the pilot episode of the iconic series Upstairs Downstairs ) then turned to novels - including the classic The Life and Loves of a She Devil and The Cloning of Joanna May . Fay´s sequence of novels about the Dilberne family, which encompasses her Love and Inheritance trilogy and Before the War , draws to a close with this final instalment, After the Peace . Fay´s been made a CBE for services to literature and she´s currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

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