| Edition |
First U.S. Edition |
| ISBN |
9781250121233 (hardback) |
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125012123X (hardback) |
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9781250121240 (e-book) |
| Descript |
298 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's child and will die in childbirth in just a few months... Fay Weldon, with one eye on the present and one on the past, offers Vivien's fate, along with that of London between World War I and World War II. This is a city fizzing with change, full of flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked soldiers, and aristocrats clinging onto the past."-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Single women -- Fiction
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
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Historical fiction
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London (England) -- Fiction
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