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"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.…
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7 editions- Audiobook · English · 2017Macmillan Audio · 9781427282026
- Paperback · English · 2016Head of Zeus · 9781784082086
- Other · English · 2017St. Martin's Press · 298 pages · 9781250121233
- Other · English · 2017St. Martin's Press · 310 pages · 9781250121240
- Other · English · 2016Head of Zeus · 400 pages · 9781784082079
- Other · English · 2016Head of Zeus · 9781784082062
Single womenMan-woman relationshipsFictionLondon (england), fictionFiction, historicalMan-woman relationships, fictionSingle women, fictionNew York Times reviewed