In a study of impressive scope and insight, Mara Reisman brings together cultural history and literary analysis. She does the almost-impossible, taking the reader through over fifty years of Weldon's writing, exploring its diversity, while maintaining a clear line of argument.

Mary Eagleton, Independent Scholar, UK

In the first comprehensive overview of Weldon’s major novels from the Sixties to the new millennium, Mara Reisman examines the challenges posed and controversies ignited by one of Britain’s most entertaining, inventive and provocative writers. This book offers an important and valuable account of Weldon’s relationship to gender and sexual politics, social concerns and literary culture over six decades.

Emma Parker, University of Leicester

Not only will Mara Reisman’s engaging, comprehensive and savvy exploration of Fay Weldon’s works become the definitive commentary on Weldon--it will also be recognized by scholars and critics as a useful, erudite and lively exposition of sex, class, humor, feminism and the art of publishing over the last half-century. “One must be careful with words,” writes Weldon, and Reisman’s book illustrates the axiom.

Regina Barreca, University of Connecticut