Последние издания книг Фэй Уэлдон

Its 2013 and 80-year-old Frances is sitting on the stairs of Number 3, Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill, listening to the debt collectors pounding on her front door. From this house she's witnessed 5 decades of world history - the fall of communism, the death of capitalism - and, with the bailiffs, world history has finally reached her doorstep.

From the award-winning writer of the original Upstairs Downstairs—the second novel in an irresistible trilogy about an Earl's family and his servants at the turn of the twentieth century.

As 1901 comes to an end, there is much to be grateful for: The Dilberne fortune has been restored, and the grand Dilberne Court, with its one hundred rooms, has been saved. Lord Robert's son, Arthur, is happily married to Chicago heiress, Minnie, who is pregnant and trying to come to terms with her new role as lady of the manor, and her charming but controlling mother-in-law, Lady Isobel. As Lord Robert and Lady Isobel get caught up in the preparations of the coronation of Edward VII, they debate the future of their recently orphaned niece, Adela. Isobel and Minnie want to take her in; Robert and Arthur do not. While they argue, Adela runs away and joins a travelling group of spiritualists and has a life-saving run-in with the king.
With Long Live the King, Fay Weldon continues the magnificent trilogy that began with Habits of the House. As the award-winning writer for the pilot episode of the original Upstairs Downstairs, Weldon brings her deservedly famous wit and insight to this novel of love and desire, morals and manners.

From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the third book in a brilliant trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey.

England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, is busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months a way. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so, and so must James, the new heir and son of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie O'Brien. But there are problems. Little James is being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes, not Minnie's. And Mrs. O'Brien is visiting from America and causing trouble. Meanwhile, the Dilbernes' niece, Adela is back and stirring up hysteria in the servants hall by claiming the house is cursed. The royal visit is imperiled, but so are the Dilberne finances once more. His Lordship is under tremendous stress, and the pecking order will soon be upset as everything at Dilberne Court changes.

The New Countess is the final novel in Fay Weldon's exciting trilogy that began with Habits of the House and Long Live the King. The bestselling novelist and award-winning writer of the pilot episode of the original Upstairs Downstairs lifts the curtain on British society, upstairs and downstairs, under one roof.

As the summer of 1899 gives way to autumn Lord Dilberne's decision to remain in Belgrave Square rather than move the household to the ancestral acres of Dilberne Court sends out ripples of concern over his debts. The ripples spread to his wife Isobel who orders the life of the household, and to Grace the lady's maid who orders the life of her mistress. They touch the insouciant lives of his still unmarried children, Arthur, who is passionate about motor cars and keeps a courtesan in Half Moon Street, and Rosina, who airs fashionably progressive views and keeps a parrot in her bedroom. The novel explores how the ripples of change affect the lives above stairs and below.

But as the story unfolds it becomes also a novel about affairs of the heart, a love story precipitated by the arrival on the London scene of Minnie, an American heiress, and her resourceful mother intent on finding her daughter a husband. With wit and sympathy - and no small measure of mischief - Ms Weldon plots the interplay of restraint and desire, manners and morals, reason and instinct.

"Ненавижу семейную жизнь" - один из последних по времени романов блистательной англичанки Фэй Уэлдон. Продолжая классическую традицию женской прозы, Уэлдон начала писать в середине 60-х и с тех пор, помимо пьес и сценариев (в их числе знаменитый телесериал по книге Джейн Остин "Гордость и предубеждение") с неизменным успехом публикует романы, читаемые во всем мире:…

Роскошный спа-курорт, расположенный в средневековом английском замке, приглашает состоятельных дам встретить Рождество и Новый год в райских условиях и приятном обществе!
Заманчивое предложение - особенно для женщин, которые не желают проводить праздничную неделю в одиночестве...
Каждой из посетительниц - знаменитой журналистке и популярной сценаристке, нейрохирургу и автору бестселлеров, молоденькой маникюрше и зрелой матроне - отчаянно хочется поделиться наболевшим с остальными. Почему бы и нет? Ведь они никогда больше не встретятся, а отвести душу в чисто женской компании так приятно!
Одна за другой дамы начинают рассказывать свои истории...

Фэй Уэлдон иногда называют современной Джейн Остин. Продолжая классическую традицию женского романа, Уэлдон вошла в литературу в середине 60-х и с тех пор, помимо пьес и сценариев, выпустила около тридцати книг ("Жизнь и любовь дьяволицы", "Ожерелье от Bulgary", "Жизненная сила" и др.), многие из которых экранизированы. "Род-Айленд блюз" - выстроенная в блюзовой…

Боббо, красавчик ловелас и эпикуреец, влюбившись в очаровательную писательницу, решает оставить семью: двоих детей и жену Руфь - крупную, неловкую, некрасивую, пo-собачьи преданную мужу домашнюю рабыню.
В ее голове рождается грандиозный, поистине дьявольский план мести, для осуществления которого ей понадобится семь лет.

Жизнь пуста и скучна, а впереди - только одинокая старость?
Муж сбежал к молоденькой дуре, а на вашу долю осталось сострадание удачливых приятельниц?
А может - хватит жалеть себя!?
Леди, в сорок лет жизнь только начинается! Просто - пора перестать лить слезы о загубленной молодости и научиться хватать судьбу за глотку...
Главное - выше голову и больше юмора!