Big Women

Fay Weldon's new novel blasts into the Brave Now World which women - and their men - fought for, agonised over, and thought they would inherit. There's the feminist publishing house, Medusa, founded one balmy evening in a flurry of argument, peace-making naked dancing. There's Layla: noisy, darlingish, high-profile: 'l am the only right thinking feminist there is. It's all the others who are out of step.' And Alice, the academic, the philosopher, the - eventually -- Glastonbury witch. And Nancy, boring, sensible Nancy who is the only one with any business nous. And Stephanie - the one who leaves her husband and children to embrace politics, men, other women ... Their stories are intertwined with twenty years of all our lives - blissful, rage-filled, treacherous, redemptive.