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Down Among the Women

By (author) Fay Weldon, Read by Tamryn Payne, Read by Charlotte Davey





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Brought to you by Penguin. The Mermaid Collection A classic from beloved national treasure Fay Weldon sees four women break the shackles of patriarchy and domesticity in 1950s London, from the author of The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil With a foreword by Jenny Colgan ‘Down among the women. What a place to be!’ So says Wanda, a former radical who left her husband and raised her daughter Scarlet to be as liberated as she. But twenty-year-old Scarlet, with an abortion already behind her, is about to discover real liberation – as a single mother in Fifties’ London. Yet Scarlet’s not alone. Meet her friends: Sylvia, the born victim; respectable Jocelyn, willingly trapped in a dull, bourgeois marriage; Audrey, bristling to break free of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant – and very doomed. Over the course of twenty years, from the Fifties to the Seventies, Scarlet, Wanda and their friends will wonder if they can ever become the women they always dreamed of being. Praise for Fay Weldon: 'A national treasure' Literary Review 'Wickedly stylish. Bursting with intelligence and fire' Daily Telegraph 'Prolific and provocative, Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists' Time Out 'A queen of words' Caitlin Moran © Fay Weldon 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd
Published date | 11 Sep 2025
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Format | Downloadable audio file
Pages | 0
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Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-4059-8421-8
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BISAC | fiction / classics


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