Letters to Alice
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Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own niece, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.
Fay Weldon was a well known novelist, playwright, critic and scriptwriter. Her first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke, was published in 1967 and she published 38 more novels after that, including the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, which has been adapted for screen, television and radio. She also wrote seven collections of short stories and several works of non-fiction, including her autobiography Auto Da Fay. Awarded a CBE in 2001, she was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in 2012.
For more information about Fay and her work, visit her website: www.fayweldon.co.uk.