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Metafiction is often more fun to write than it is to read. Everything on the page is the result of a series of strenuous choices, none inevitable, and reminding the reader just who made these choices (whether conscious or not) can be amusing, aesthetically useful and a great...
— Oct 28 2013
In the extraordinary, funny metafictional novel, Kehua! British author Fay Weldon explores the lives of two sets of characters surrounded by supernatural elements that interrupt and accompany the non-linear narrative. An unnamed writer, obviously a fictional stand in for Fay...
— Oct 2 2013
When Beverley was a young girl in New Zealand, running away from her mother’s murdered body, a flock of Maori spirits came to be her protectors. Unable to return to their home, these spirits, the Kehua, followed Beverley to England, where they remain with her still, almost...
— Oct 1 2013
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— Dec 1 2010
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— Nov 13 2010
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— Oct 20 2010
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— Oct 15 2010
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— Oct 10 2010
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— Sep 28 2010
For her 29th novel, a long-celebrated British-based writer delivers a combined fictional memoir and prescient alternative history. Herself a writer nearing her 80s, Weldon (The Stepmother’s Diary, 2008, etc.) here introduces an 80-plus-year-old alter-ego sister who never...
— Aug 15 2010
Weldon (Worst Fears) returns in fine, sharp form in this mischievous dystopian tale. By 2013, capitalism has collapsed in Europe, and England has turned to protectionist policies, communal farms, and an intrusive National Unity Government that feeds its citizens National Meat...
— Aug 9 2010

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