Life Force - Hardcover

'This is Weldon at her most wicked.' - Elle

'Full of scandal and the joy and guilt of sex.' - Oxford Mail

'Weldon struts her more robust stuff.' - Vogue

'She can tease, tantalise and scandalise better than any other writer today.' - Financial Times

'Bleak, too, and full of wisdom that goes beyond the conventional view and the received idea.' - Cosmopolitan

'Here is Weldon witty, ingenious, outrageous, absorbed in sexual currents, leaping from character to character or year to year with the sure-footedness of an Alpine chamois. Weldon has precisely captured the atmosphere of a time and a final exchange of power. Grim stuff, and Weldon doesn't pull her punches.' - Scotsman

'Everywhere is the unmistakable zippiness of her narrative style.' - Daily Telegraph

'A scathing indictment of rampant seedshedding and moral vanity. Through the voices of women Beck has seduced, Weldon joyously wields the scalpel.' - Woman's Journal

FAY WELDON is an English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who, at the age of sixteen, lived in a grand London townhouse as the daughter of the housekeeper. In addition to winning a Writers' Guild Award for the pilot of the original "Upstairs Downstairs, " she is a Commander of the British Empire whose books include "Praxis", shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; "The Heart of the Country, " winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize; "Worst Fears, " shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award; and "Wicked Women, " which won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She lives in England.