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Title: CHALCOT CRESCENT
By: Fay Weldon
Format: Hardback

List price: £16.99


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ISBN 10: 1848872682
ISBN 13: 9781848872684
Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS
Pub. date: 1 September, 2009
Pages: 288
Description: 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.
Synopsis: Fay Weldon in top gear: a wickedly sharp, history-bending, cosmos-colliding novel that tells the story of Frances, Fay's never-born younger sister. Its 2013 and eighty-year-old Frances (part-time copywriter, has-been writer, one-time national treasure) 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 five decades of world history - the fall of communism, the death of capitalism - and now, with the bailiffs, world history has finally reached her doorstep. While she waits for the bailiffs to give up and leave, Frances writes (not that she has an agent any more, or that her books are still published, or even that there are any publishers left). She writes about the boyfriends she borrowed and the husband she stole from Fay, about her daughters and their children. She writes about the Shock, the Crunch, the Squeeze, the Recovery, the Fall, the Crisis and the Bite, about NUG the National Unity Government, about ration books, powercuts, National Meat Loaf (suitable for vegetarians) and the new Neighbourhood Watch. She writes about family secrets...The problem is that fact and fiction are blurring in Frances' mind.Is it her writer's imagination, or is it just old age, or plain paranoia? Are her grandchildren really plotting a terrorist coup upstairs? Are faceless assassins trying to kill her younger daughter? Should she worry that her son in law is an incipient megalomaniac being groomed for NUG's highest office? What on earth can NUG have against vegetarians? And just what makes National Meat Loaf so tasty?
Publication: UK
Imprint: Corvus
Returns: Returnable
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3 GREAT HISTORICAL NOVELS
A HARD TIME TO BE A FATHER
A HARD TIME TO BE A FATHER (PB)
ACTION REPLAY (PB)
AFFLICTION
AFFLICTION (AUD)
AFFLICTION (PB)
AFFLICTION (PB)
AFTER THE FIREWORKS (PB)
AFTER THE PEACE (CD)
AFTER THE PEACE (HB)
AFTER THE PEACE (PB)
AFTER THE PEACE (PB)
ANGEL, ALL INNOCENCE (HB)
AUTO DA FAY
AUTO DA FAY (HB)
AUTO DA FAY (PB)
AUTO DA FAY (PB)
AUTO DA FAY (PB)
BEFORE THE WAR
BEFORE THE WAR (HB)
BEFORE THE WAR (PB)
BEFORE THE WAR (PB)
BESTE FEINDINNEN (PB)
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY (PB)
BIG WOMEN
CHALCOT CRESCENT
CHALCOT CRESCENT (PB)
CHALCOT CRESCENT (PB)
CHALCOT CRESCENT AIR EXP (PB)
CLONING OF JOANNA MAY (AUD)
CLONING OF JOANNA MAY (PB)
DARCY'S UTOPIA
DARCY'S UTOPIA (AUD)
DARCY'S UTOPIA (PB)
DEATH OF A SHE DEVIL
DEATH OF A SHE DEVIL (HB)
DEATH OF A SHE DEVIL (PB)
DEATH OF A SHE DEVIL (PB)
DOWN AMONG THE WOMEN
DOWN AMONG THE WOMEN
DOWN AMONG THE WOMEN (PB)
FAT WOMAN''S JOKE (PB)
FAY WELDON OMNIBUS
FEMALE FRIENDS
FEMALE FRIENDS
FEMALE FRIENDS (PB)
FLOOD WARNING (PB)
GODLESS IN EDEN
GODLESS IN EDEN (PB)
GODLESS IN EDEN (PB)
GROWING RICH
GROWING RICH (PB)
GROWING RICH (PB)
HABITS OF THE HOUSE
HABITS OF THE HOUSE (HB)
HABITS OF THE HOUSE (PB)
HABITS OF THE HOUSE (PB)
HARD TIME TO BE A FATHER (PB)
HEARTS AND LIVES OF MEN (CD)
HEARTS AND LIVES OF MEN (PB)
HERZENSWUNSCHE (PB)
HOW TO BE A WRITER
HOW TO BE A WRITER (PB)
I LOVE MY LOVE (PB)
IKKE EN TR VL AT TAGE P (PB)
INTRIGERNA PA BELGRAVE SQUARE
KEHUA
KEHUA (HB)
KEHUA! (PB)
LADY IS A TRAMP (HB)
LEADER OF THE BAND
LETTERS TO ALICE
LETTERS TO ALICE (CD)
LETTERS TO ALICE (PB)
LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL (PB)
LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL (CD)
LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL (PB)
LIFE FORCE
LIFE FORCE (AUD)
LIFE FORCE (PB)
LIFE FORCE (PB)
LITTLE SISTERS
LIVSKRAFT (PB)
LONG LIVE THE KING
LONG LIVE THE KING (HB)
LONG LIVE THE KING (PB)
LONG LIVE THE KING (PB)
LOVE & INHERITANCE - BOX SET
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP (PB)
MADAME BOVARY (PB)
MAN WITH NO EYES (AUD)
MANDEF LDEN (PB)
MANTRAPPED
MANTRAPPED (PB)
MANTRAPPED (PB)
MISCHIEF
MISCHIEF (HB)
MISCHIEF (PB)
MISCHIEF (PB)
MIXED DOUBLES (PB)
MOON OVER MINNEAPOLIS
MOON OVER MINNEAPOLIS (PB)
MOON OVER MINNEAPOLIS (PB)
NOBODY LIKES ME (HB)
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE (PB)
POLARIS
PR SIDENTENS BARN (PB)
PRAXIS
PRAXIS (PB)
PUFFBALL
PUFFBALL (PB)
PUFFBALL (PB)
QUESTION OF TIMING (PB)
QUESTION OF TIMING (PB)
READING GROUP (PB)
REMEMBER ME
REMEMBER ME (PB)
RHODE ISLAND BLUES
RHODE ISLAND BLUES (AUD)
RHODE ISLAND BLUES (PB)
RHODE ISLAND BLUES (PB)
SACRED COWS
SHE MAY NOT LEAVE
SHE MAY NOT LEAVE (PB)
SHE MAY NOT LEAVE (PB)
SHRAPNEL ACADEMY (AUD)
SHRAPNEL ACADEMY (HB)
SPA
SPA-GEFLUSTER (PB)
SPLITTING
SPLITTING
SPLITTING (AUD)
SPLITTING (PB)
SPLITTING (PB)
SPLITTING (PB)
SPLITTING (PB)
STEPMOTHERS DIARY EXPORT EDITION (PB)
THE BULGARI CONNECTION
THE BULGARI CONNECTION (PB)
THE BULGARI CONNECTION (PB)
THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAY
THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAY
THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAY (AUD)
THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAY (PB)
THE DEVIL IN THE FLESH (PB)
THE EPISTLES OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS
THE EPISTLES OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS (PB)
THE EPISTLES OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS (PB)
THE FAT WOMAN'S JOKE
THE FAT WOMAN'S JOKE (PB)
THE FAT WOMAN'S JOKE (PB)
THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY
THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY (PB)
THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY (PB)
THE HEARTS AND LIVES OF MEN (PB)
THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL
THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL
THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL (PB)
THE NEW COUNTESS
THE NEW COUNTESS (HB)
THE NEW COUNTESS (HB)
THE NEW COUNTESS (PB)
THE NEW COUNTESS (PB)
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD (PB)
THE RIVER OF ANGRY DOGS (HB)
THE RULES OF LIFE
THE SHRAPNEL ACADEMY
THE SHRAPNEL ACADEMY (PB)
THE SHRAPNEL ACADEMY (PB)
THE SPA DECAMERON
THE SPA DECAMERON
THE SPA DECAMERON (CD)
THE SPA DECAMERON (PB)
THE STEPMOTHER'S DIARY (HB)
THE STEPMOTHER'S DIARY (PB)
THE TED DREAMS
WATCHING ME, WATCHING YOU
WATCHING ME, WATCHING YOU (PB)
WHAT MAKES WOMEN HAPPY
WHAT MAKES WOMEN HAPPY (HB)
WHAT MAKES WOMEN HAPPY (HB)
WHAT MAKES WOMEN HAPPY (PB)
WHY WILL NO-ONE PUBLISH MY NOVEL? (HB)
WHY WILL NO-ONE PUBLISH MY NOVEL? (PB)
WICKED WOMEN
WICKED WOMEN (PB)
WICKED WOMEN (PB)
WICKED WOMEN (PB)
WICKED WOMEN (PB)
WORST FEARS
WORST FEARS (PB)
WORST FEARS (PB)
WORST FEARS (PB)

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