<p>âA typically Weldonesque tale of cleverness, with tongue-in-cheek asidesâ<br />Good Housekeeping</p>
<p>âAs exuberant as everâ<br />Daily Telegraph</p>
<p>âBreathtaking⌠catches its reader up in a gale of good spirits and devilment that keeps on blowing from beginning to endâ<br />Observer</p>
A turbine-driven fantasy of love and revenge, values and morals: a witty and compellng elixir.
Bernard Bellamy has done a deal. Heâs sold out to the Devil, in all his forms. In return, he is promised that all his wishes will be granted, all his desires fulfilled. One of them, young Carmen Wedmore, is proving to be quite a challenge.
Carmen lives in the new town of Fenedge, East Anglia, near her former schoolfriends Laura and Annie. The three girls dream of the day theyâll escape their dullsville existence. While Annie flies off with a fluttering, blipping heart to the snowcapped peaks and frothy rapids of New Zealand to join the man of her dreams and Laura marries, capably moving the population graph a few notches higher, Carmen stays in Fenedge, under the powerful clasp of Sir Bernard and Driver, the Devilâs agent. Disguised as a suave chauffeur, Driver cruises in his plush, shiny, sinister limo, stalking her every move.
But Carmen becomes ever more determined to ride out the temptations laid in her path and not to sell her soul. Will she eventually succumb? Or will the Devil, for once, not have everything his own way?
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A turbine-driven fantasy of love and revenge, values and morals: a witty and compellng elixir.
⢠Fay Weldonâs fiction attracts wide press coverage, ranging from broadsheet to tabloid to magazine
⢠A high-profile Flamingo author, her novels always excite controversy
Competition: Margaret Atwood; Jeanette Winterson; Doris Lessing; Iris Murdoch; Germaine Greer; Joan Collins
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780007291786
Publisert
2008-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Flamingo
Vekt
125 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
00, G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256
Forfatter
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Fay Weldon was born and raised in New Zealand. Her novels and short stories best-sell around the world and wherever they go are awarded great critical acclaim. Her film and TV work wins enthusiastic viewers by the million, worldwide.